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Published in: Perspectives on Medical Education 3/2016

Open Access 01-06-2016 | The Writer’s Craft

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Author: Lorelei Lingard

Published in: Perspectives on Medical Education | Issue 3/2016

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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? See previous such articles. …
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Metadata
Title
Bonfire red titles
Author
Lorelei Lingard
Publication date
01-06-2016
Publisher
Bohn Stafleu van Loghum
Published in
Perspectives on Medical Education / Issue 3/2016
Print ISSN: 2212-2761
Electronic ISSN: 2212-277X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s40037-016-0267-3

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