RT Book, Section
A1 Zeiger, Mimi
SR Print(0)
ID 1142144374
T1 Clear Writing
T2 Essentials of Writing Biomedical Research Papers, 2e
YR 2017
FD 2017
PB McGraw-Hill Medical
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071503853
LK accessbiomedicalscience.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1142144374
RD 2024/04/19
AB Most  readers  agree  that  much  of  the  biomedical  literature  is  badly  written  (Woodford,  1967).  The  problem  with  most  biomedical  research  papers  is  that  they  lose  the  forest  for  the  trees.  The  extreme  example  is  a  paper  that  gives  overwhelming  details  about  what  others  have  found  ("review  of  the  literature");  exhaustive  lists  of  variables  measured  (generally  written  as  an  alphabet  soup  of  abbreviations);  a  blizzard  of  data  in  the  form  of  means,  standard  errors,  and  P  values;  and  a  meandering  "discussion"  of  the  data.  No  story  is  told;  no  message  emerges.  But  science  is  not  data.  Data  are  the  raw  material  of  science.  It  is  what  you  do  with  data  that  is  science—the  interpretation  you  make,  the  story  you  tell.