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Effective Writing for Health Care

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Writing for Medical and Scientific Journals

In this specialized track of Effective Writing for Health Care, you will learn strategies and develop skills to craft a compelling clinical or basic science article. Learn from distinguished Harvard Medical School faculty, editors and reviewers at the New England Journal of Medicine and published clinicians, clinical investigators and researchers about:

  • The art of persuasion
  • What it takes to publish in the top-tier journals
  • Best practices for academic argument
  • Reference management tools for scientific writing
  • All variant forms of plagiarism
  • Guidance to improve altmetrics
  • Key copyright considerations when publishing research
  • Best practices for packaging and pitching your paper
  • How to review and self-edit your paper
  • Strategies for authorship negotiation
These concepts will help you master the writing process, from ideation to final submission to:
  • Communicate your science in a strong and impactful way
  • Select the most effective writing structure and communication approach
  • Shape the right research question
  • Understand editor and reviewer priorities
  • Avoid mistakes that result in article rejections
  • Write compelling abstracts and conclusions
  • Network in research, teamwork and collaboration
  • Incorporate reviewer feedback
  • Present data, tables and figures
  • Search the biomedical literature
  • Ensure publication integrity
  • Understand and navigating your publishing options
Education includes instruction, strategies, skills development and best practices for developing an article’s:
  • Introduction
  • Justification of study
  • Methods
  • Results
  • Use of data visualization
  • Tables, figures and their titles and legends
  • Discussion
  • Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • Abstract

Two Specialized Tracks

Writing for Medical and Scientific Journals
Writing for the Public
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