The biomedical writer : what you need to succeed in academic medicine

Co-authored by a leading ophthalmology researcher and a professor with fifteen years of experience teaching writing in the biomedical sciences, The Biomedical Writer addresses ways to use psychology and neuroscience to equip researchers and clinicians with an understanding of how effects like priming, primacy, recency, framing, and apparent paradoxes can make or break your articles and grant proposals. The Biomedical Writer covers everything from making sentences readable, effective, and memorable to working with collaborators under unforgiving deadlines. Going far beyond the basic structure and content of manuscripts and proposals, this guide to writing in biomedicine also focuses on topics that include handling negative results and the most important and neglected step in submitting manuscripts to journals. Writing Today Is A Task That Most Researchers Delegate To The Least-seasoned Member Of Their Unit. These Junior Members Of Teams Are, If Anything, Even More In The Dark About The Entire Cycle Of Writing, Submission, And Revision Than The Rest Of The Team. Perversely, We Treat The Most Challenging Aspect Of Research As Gruntwork Best Passed Off To The Individuals Who Cannot Refuse To Do It. Perhaps, If Researchers Knew The Logistics Of Good Writing And The Gauntlets We All Pass Through In Getting Work Published Or Funded, They Would Spend More Time Mentoring Their Teammates And Even Less Time Delegating--provided By Publisher. Writing : The Most Vital And Neglected Skill -- Writing For Your Reader's Brain -- Before You Begin : Getting To So What? And Who Cares? -- Getting Published : Manuscripts, Journals, And Submissions -- Getting Funded : Applying For Grants -- Collaborative Writing : Pass The Baton -- Communicating With The Public. Yellowlees Douglas, Phd, Associate Professor, University Of Florida, Maria B. Grant, Md, Professor, University Of Alabama-birmingham. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.