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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2009

Neville W. Goodman  and
Martin B. Edwards
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Andy Black
Neville W. Goodman
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Southmead Hospital, North Bristol NHS Trust
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Medical Writing
A Prescription for Clarity
 , pp. 239 - 243
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2006

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Dixon, B. (ed.) From Creation to Chaos: Classic Writings in Science. Oxford: Blackwell, 1989.Google Scholar
Anonymous. Superstring theory. Lancet 1989; ii: 426–7.
Durant, J. Silver tongues and twitching eyebrows. The Times Higher Educational Supplement 25 Mar 1994, pp. 21–2.
Shuster, S.Loneliness of a long distanced reviewer. Br. Med. J. 1981; 283: 1443–4.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Perutz, M.Is Science Necessary? Essays on Science and Scientists. London: Barrie and Jenkins, 1989.Google Scholar
Medawar, P.Memoir of a Thinking Radish. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986.Google Scholar
Feynman, R. P.‘Surely You're joking, Mr Feynman!’London: Unwin, 1986.Google Scholar
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O'Donnell, M.One man's burden. Br. Med. J. 1985; 290: 250.Google Scholar
Barrass, R.Scientists Must Write. London: Chapman & Hall, 1978.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lutz, W. The world of doublespeak. In Ricks, C., Michaels, L. (eds.) The State of the Language, 1990 edition. London: Faber and Faber, 1990.Google Scholar
Dutton, D. B.Worse Than the Disease: Pitfalls of Medical Progress. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Silverman, W. A.Human Experimentation: A Guided Step into the Unknown. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985.Google Scholar
Anonymous. Surrogate measures in clinical trials. Lancet 1990; 335: 261–2.CrossRef
Whimster, W. F.Reading, writing – and rewriting. Br. Med. J. 1987; 294: 1011.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Anonymous. Trimming hedges. Lancet 1992; 340: 275–6.CrossRef
Tinker, J. H.Book review. N. Engl. J. Med. 1994; 330: 946.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hayes, D. P.The growing inaccessibility of science. Nature 1992; 356: 739–40.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Pickering, G.High Blood Pressure, 2nd edn. London: Churchill, 1968.Google Scholar
Watson, J. D., Crick, F. H. C.A structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid. Nature (Lond) 1953; 171: 737–8.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Whimster, W. F. Be your own subeditor. In How to do it: 1, 2nd edn. London: BMJ Publishing Group, 1985, pp. 220–3.Google Scholar
MacUser 9 July 1993, p. 55.
Anonymous. Personal view: a hidden handicap. Br. Med. J. 1994; 308: 66–7.
Bloom, D. A., Mory, R. N., Hinman, F. Jr. Dilation vs. dilatation. J. Urol. 1992; 147: 1682CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Aronson, J. K. “Where name and image meet” – the argument for adrenaline. Br. Med. J. 2000; 320: 506–9.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Crick, F.What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988.Google Scholar
Mitchell, J. R. A.Back to the future: so what will fibrinolytic therapy offer your patients with myocardial infarction?Br. Med. J. 1986; 292: 973–8.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Paton, A.Way with words. Br. Med. J. 1994; 309: 253.Google Scholar
Brewin, T. B.Empirical: one word, two meanings. J. R. Coll. Phys. Lond. 1994; 28: 78–9.Google ScholarPubMed
Burkhart, S.Sexism in medical writing. Br. Med. J. 1987; 295: 1585.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Kuhn, T.The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 2nd edn. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970.Google Scholar
Goodman, N. W.Paradigm, parameter, paralysis of mind. Br. Med. J. 1993; 307: 1627–9.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Up & down the city road. The Independent Magazine, 5 Feb 1994, p. 10, col 3.
Eger, E. I. IIA template for writing a scientific paper. Anesth. Analg. 1989; 68: 740–3.Google Scholar
Ziman, J.Reliable Knowledge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978, p. 42.Google Scholar
Howard, P.Winged Words. London: Corgi, 1983.Google Scholar
Pinker, S.The Language Instinct. London: Allen Lane, Penguin Press, 1994, pp. 213–14.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Dixon, B.Slide rules. Br. Med. J. 1994; 309: 1665.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Nash, W.English Usage. A Guide to First Principles. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986.Google Scholar
Soanes, C., Stevenson, A. (eds.) Concise Oxford English Dictionary, 11th edn. Oxford: Clarendon, 2004.Google Scholar
Baron, D. N. (ed.) Units, Symbols and Abbreviations. A Guide for Biological and Medical Editors and Authors, 5th edn. London: Royal Society of Medicine Services, 1994.Google Scholar
Gowers, E.The Complete Plain Words. 3rd edn, revised by Greenbaum, S., Whitcut, J. London: HMSO, 1986.Google Scholar
Strunk, W. I., White, E. B.The Elements of Style. Harlow: Longman, 1999.Google Scholar
Bryson, , , Bill. Troublesome Words. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2002.Google Scholar
Hicks, W.Quite Literally. Problem Words and How to Use Them. New York: Routledge, 2004.Google Scholar
Trask, R. L.Mind the gaffe. The Penguin Guide to Common Errors in English. London: Penguin, 2002.Google Scholar
Trask, R. L.The Penguin Guide to Punctuation. London: Penguin, 2004.Google Scholar
Albert, T. Winning the Publications Game: How to Write a Scientific Paper Without Neglecting your Patients, 2nd edn. Oxford: Radcliffe Medical Press, 2000. The author of this book runs courses for health professionals, and his website (http://www.timalbert.co.uk/) is worth a visit.
Barrass, R.Scientists Must Write, 2nd edn. London: Routledge, 2002.Google Scholar
Huth, E.Writing and Publishing in Medicine, 3rd edn. Baltimore: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 1998.Google Scholar
O'Connor, M.Writing Successfully in Science. London: Routledge, 1991.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Carr, S.Tackling NHS Jargon. Getting The Message Across. Oxford: Radcliffe Medical Press, 2001.Google Scholar
Burchfield, R. W., Fowler, H. W.Fowler's Modern English Usage, revised edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.Google Scholar
Weiner, E. S. C., Delahunty, A.The Oxford Guide to English Usage, 2nd edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.Google Scholar
Hayakawa, S. I., Ehrlich, E.The Penguin Guide to Synonyms and Related Words, 2nd edn. London: Penguin, 1996.Google Scholar
Bigwood, S., Spore, M.Presenting Numbers, Tables, and Charts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.Google Scholar
Tufte, E. R.The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Surrey: Graphics Press, 2001.Google Scholar
Asher, R., Holland, R. (eds.) A Sense of Asher. London: BMJ Books, 1984. Richard Asher was one of the best and most sensible medical writers. This is not a book about how to write; it is a book that shows you how to write.
Bryson, B. Mother Tongue. The English Language. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991. The story of the language, told with humour.
Burchfield, R., Simpson, J. The English Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. More scholarly than Bryson.
Crystal, D. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, 2nd edn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. What it says: encyclopaedic. Read about Singapore English, the great vowel shift and more.
Crystal, D. Rediscover Grammar, 3rd edn. Harlow: Pearson Longman, 2004. A pocket sized, travel guide to grammar.
Honey, J. Language is Power. The Story of Standard English and its Enemies. London: Faber and Faber, 1997. A political tract which asks, why, if ‘standard English’ is decried by so many as elitist, those who support standard English are so keen that everyone should learn it.
McArthur, T. Oxford Guide to World English. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Covers much of the same ground as the Crystal book (above) but in a more conventional format.
O'Donnell, M. A Sceptic's Medical Dictionary. London: BMJ Publishing Group, 1997. The inventor of the term Decorated Municipal Gothic.
Pinker, S. The Language Instinct. The New Science of Language and Mind. London: Penguin, 1995. Language, neurophysiology and psychology: a best seller.
Quiller-Couch, A. On the Art of Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1916. (Out of print) This was a standard in its time. Current scholars are prone to complain that it is time we put Quiller-Couch away, but his chapter, ‘On the capital difficulty of prose’, given to me (NWG) by my D. Phil. supervisor, Bob Torrance, helped to set me on my way to better writing.
Truss, L. Eats, Shoots and Leaves. The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation. London: Profile Books, 2003. Pinker (above) was a best-seller; Truss was, and still is, a phenomenon.
Furedi, F.Where Have all the Intellectuals Gone?London: Continuum, 2004, p. 95.Google Scholar
Dixon, B. (ed.) From Creation to Chaos: Classic Writings in Science. Oxford: Blackwell, 1989.Google Scholar
Anonymous. Superstring theory. Lancet 1989; ii: 426–7.
Durant, J. Silver tongues and twitching eyebrows. The Times Higher Educational Supplement 25 Mar 1994, pp. 21–2.
Shuster, S.Loneliness of a long distanced reviewer. Br. Med. J. 1981; 283: 1443–4.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Perutz, M.Is Science Necessary? Essays on Science and Scientists. London: Barrie and Jenkins, 1989.Google Scholar
Medawar, P.Memoir of a Thinking Radish. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986.Google Scholar
Feynman, R. P.‘Surely You're joking, Mr Feynman!’London: Unwin, 1986.Google Scholar
Gregory, M. W.The infectiousness of pompous prose. Nature 1992; 360: 11–2.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
O'Donnell, M.One man's burden. Br. Med. J. 1985; 290: 250.Google Scholar
Barrass, R.Scientists Must Write. London: Chapman & Hall, 1978.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lutz, W. The world of doublespeak. In Ricks, C., Michaels, L. (eds.) The State of the Language, 1990 edition. London: Faber and Faber, 1990.Google Scholar
Dutton, D. B.Worse Than the Disease: Pitfalls of Medical Progress. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Silverman, W. A.Human Experimentation: A Guided Step into the Unknown. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985.Google Scholar
Anonymous. Surrogate measures in clinical trials. Lancet 1990; 335: 261–2.CrossRef
Whimster, W. F.Reading, writing – and rewriting. Br. Med. J. 1987; 294: 1011.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Anonymous. Trimming hedges. Lancet 1992; 340: 275–6.CrossRef
Tinker, J. H.Book review. N. Engl. J. Med. 1994; 330: 946.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hayes, D. P.The growing inaccessibility of science. Nature 1992; 356: 739–40.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Pickering, G.High Blood Pressure, 2nd edn. London: Churchill, 1968.Google Scholar
Watson, J. D., Crick, F. H. C.A structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid. Nature (Lond) 1953; 171: 737–8.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Whimster, W. F. Be your own subeditor. In How to do it: 1, 2nd edn. London: BMJ Publishing Group, 1985, pp. 220–3.Google Scholar
MacUser 9 July 1993, p. 55.
Anonymous. Personal view: a hidden handicap. Br. Med. J. 1994; 308: 66–7.
Bloom, D. A., Mory, R. N., Hinman, F. Jr. Dilation vs. dilatation. J. Urol. 1992; 147: 1682CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Aronson, J. K. “Where name and image meet” – the argument for adrenaline. Br. Med. J. 2000; 320: 506–9.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Crick, F.What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988.Google Scholar
Mitchell, J. R. A.Back to the future: so what will fibrinolytic therapy offer your patients with myocardial infarction?Br. Med. J. 1986; 292: 973–8.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Paton, A.Way with words. Br. Med. J. 1994; 309: 253.Google Scholar
Brewin, T. B.Empirical: one word, two meanings. J. R. Coll. Phys. Lond. 1994; 28: 78–9.Google ScholarPubMed
Burkhart, S.Sexism in medical writing. Br. Med. J. 1987; 295: 1585.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Kuhn, T.The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 2nd edn. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970.Google Scholar
Goodman, N. W.Paradigm, parameter, paralysis of mind. Br. Med. J. 1993; 307: 1627–9.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Up & down the city road. The Independent Magazine, 5 Feb 1994, p. 10, col 3.
Eger, E. I. IIA template for writing a scientific paper. Anesth. Analg. 1989; 68: 740–3.Google Scholar
Ziman, J.Reliable Knowledge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978, p. 42.Google Scholar
Howard, P.Winged Words. London: Corgi, 1983.Google Scholar
Pinker, S.The Language Instinct. London: Allen Lane, Penguin Press, 1994, pp. 213–14.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Dixon, B.Slide rules. Br. Med. J. 1994; 309: 1665.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Nash, W.English Usage. A Guide to First Principles. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986.Google Scholar
Soanes, C., Stevenson, A. (eds.) Concise Oxford English Dictionary, 11th edn. Oxford: Clarendon, 2004.Google Scholar
Baron, D. N. (ed.) Units, Symbols and Abbreviations. A Guide for Biological and Medical Editors and Authors, 5th edn. London: Royal Society of Medicine Services, 1994.Google Scholar
Gowers, E.The Complete Plain Words. 3rd edn, revised by Greenbaum, S., Whitcut, J. London: HMSO, 1986.Google Scholar
Strunk, W. I., White, E. B.The Elements of Style. Harlow: Longman, 1999.Google Scholar
Bryson, , , Bill. Troublesome Words. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2002.Google Scholar
Hicks, W.Quite Literally. Problem Words and How to Use Them. New York: Routledge, 2004.Google Scholar
Trask, R. L.Mind the gaffe. The Penguin Guide to Common Errors in English. London: Penguin, 2002.Google Scholar
Trask, R. L.The Penguin Guide to Punctuation. London: Penguin, 2004.Google Scholar
Albert, T. Winning the Publications Game: How to Write a Scientific Paper Without Neglecting your Patients, 2nd edn. Oxford: Radcliffe Medical Press, 2000. The author of this book runs courses for health professionals, and his website (http://www.timalbert.co.uk/) is worth a visit.
Barrass, R.Scientists Must Write, 2nd edn. London: Routledge, 2002.Google Scholar
Huth, E.Writing and Publishing in Medicine, 3rd edn. Baltimore: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 1998.Google Scholar
O'Connor, M.Writing Successfully in Science. London: Routledge, 1991.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Carr, S.Tackling NHS Jargon. Getting The Message Across. Oxford: Radcliffe Medical Press, 2001.Google Scholar
Burchfield, R. W., Fowler, H. W.Fowler's Modern English Usage, revised edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.Google Scholar
Weiner, E. S. C., Delahunty, A.The Oxford Guide to English Usage, 2nd edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.Google Scholar
Hayakawa, S. I., Ehrlich, E.The Penguin Guide to Synonyms and Related Words, 2nd edn. London: Penguin, 1996.Google Scholar
Bigwood, S., Spore, M.Presenting Numbers, Tables, and Charts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.Google Scholar
Tufte, E. R.The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Surrey: Graphics Press, 2001.Google Scholar
Asher, R., Holland, R. (eds.) A Sense of Asher. London: BMJ Books, 1984. Richard Asher was one of the best and most sensible medical writers. This is not a book about how to write; it is a book that shows you how to write.
Bryson, B. Mother Tongue. The English Language. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991. The story of the language, told with humour.
Burchfield, R., Simpson, J. The English Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. More scholarly than Bryson.
Crystal, D. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, 2nd edn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. What it says: encyclopaedic. Read about Singapore English, the great vowel shift and more.
Crystal, D. Rediscover Grammar, 3rd edn. Harlow: Pearson Longman, 2004. A pocket sized, travel guide to grammar.
Honey, J. Language is Power. The Story of Standard English and its Enemies. London: Faber and Faber, 1997. A political tract which asks, why, if ‘standard English’ is decried by so many as elitist, those who support standard English are so keen that everyone should learn it.
McArthur, T. Oxford Guide to World English. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Covers much of the same ground as the Crystal book (above) but in a more conventional format.
O'Donnell, M. A Sceptic's Medical Dictionary. London: BMJ Publishing Group, 1997. The inventor of the term Decorated Municipal Gothic.
Pinker, S. The Language Instinct. The New Science of Language and Mind. London: Penguin, 1995. Language, neurophysiology and psychology: a best seller.
Quiller-Couch, A. On the Art of Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1916. (Out of print) This was a standard in its time. Current scholars are prone to complain that it is time we put Quiller-Couch away, but his chapter, ‘On the capital difficulty of prose’, given to me (NWG) by my D. Phil. supervisor, Bob Torrance, helped to set me on my way to better writing.
Truss, L. Eats, Shoots and Leaves. The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation. London: Profile Books, 2003. Pinker (above) was a best-seller; Truss was, and still is, a phenomenon.

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