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Published in: Perspectives on Medical Education 5/2015

Open Access 01-10-2015 | The Writers Craft

Joining a conversation: the problem/gap/hook heuristic

Author: Lorelei Lingard

Published in: Perspectives on Medical Education | Issue 5/2015

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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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Metadata
Title
Joining a conversation: the problem/gap/hook heuristic
Author
Lorelei Lingard
Publication date
01-10-2015
Publisher
Bohn Stafleu van Loghum
Published in
Perspectives on Medical Education / Issue 5/2015
Print ISSN: 2212-2761
Electronic ISSN: 2212-277X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s40037-015-0211-y

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