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 2024/10/04 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.