This book guides medical researchers through all stages of transforming their scientific data
and ideas into a published paper. Many researchers in medicine including the life sciences and
health sciences struggle to get their research written and published. Manuscripts are
typically rejected and or sent back for revisions several times before ever being published.
One reason for this is that researchers have not received much instruction in the specific
subjects and skills needed to write and publish scientific medical papers: research methodology
ethics statistics data visualization writing revising and the practicalities of
publishing. Instead of wasting the reader's time discussing trivialities of punctuation
spelling etc. this book tackles all the major scientific issues that routinely lead to
manuscripts getting rejected from the journals. The section Preparing covers the range of
methodological ethical and practical aspects that researchers need to address before starting
to write their paper. The section Analyzing reviews commonplace problems in the statistical
analysis and presentation and how to resolve those problems. The section Drafting describes
what to write in all the various parts of a paper (the Introduction Methods Results
Discussion Abstract etc.) The section Revising explains and illustrates how to improve the
writing style of any manuscript. The section Publishing discusses how to navigate the peer
review process and all other practical aspects of the publishing phase. This book draws on the
author's decade of experience as an independent medical writer and research consultant but it
is not written merely as the personal opinion of yet another expert. The entire book is
grounded in the existing scientific and scholarly literature with extensive references and a
lengthy annotated bibliography so readerscan quickly obtain more information on any aspect
they want. Thus this book provides a more evidence-based scholarly account of how medical
scientific papers should be written in order to improve medical communication and accelerate
scientific progress. After reading this entire book cover to cover medical researchers will
know how to write better quality medical papers and they will be able to publish their work in
better journals with less time and struggle. This book is essential reading for anyone
conducting research in clinical medicine life sciences or health sciences.
