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Open Access 01-10-2021 | The Writer’s Craft

Don’t be reviewer 2! Reflections on writing effective peer review comments

Authors: Chris Watling, Shiphra Ginsburg, Lorelei Lingard

Published in: Perspectives on Medical Education | Issue 5/2021

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In the Writer’s Craft section, we offer simple tips to improve your writing in one of three areas: Energy, Clarity and Persuasiveness. Each entry focuses on a key writing feature or strategy, illustrates how it commonly goes wrong, teaches the grammatical underpinnings necessary to understand it and offers suggestions to wield it effectively. We encourage readers to share comments on or suggestions for this section on Twitter, using the hashtag: #how’syourwriting? …

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Title: Don’t be reviewer 2! Reflections on writing effective peer review comments
Authors: Chris Watling
Shiphra Ginsburg
Lorelei Lingard
Publication date: 01-10-2021
Publisher: Bohn Stafleu van Loghum
Published in: Perspectives on Medical Education / Issue 5/2021
Print ISSN: 2212-2761
Electronic ISSN: 2212-277X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40037-021-00670-z

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