The Biomedical Writer
What You Need to Succeed in Academic Medicine

Everything you need to know about the psychology, rhetoric and tactics of writing grant proposals and articles in biomedical sciences.

Yellowlees Douglas (Author), Maria B. Grant (Author)

9781108401395, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 5 April 2018

214 pages, 5 b/w illus.
18.6 x 12.2 x 1.1 cm, 0.24 kg

Co-authored by a leading ophthalmology researcher and a professor with fifteen years of experience teaching writing in the biomedical sciences, The Biomedical Writer addresses ways to use psychology and neuroscience to equip researchers and clinicians with an understanding of how effects like priming, primacy, recency, framing, and apparent paradoxes can make or break your articles and grant proposals. The Biomedical Writer covers everything from making sentences readable, effective, and memorable to working with collaborators under unforgiving deadlines. Going far beyond the basic structure and content of manuscripts and proposals, this guide to writing in biomedicine also focuses on topics that include handling negative results and the most important and neglected step in submitting manuscripts to journals.

1. Writing: the most vital – and neglected – skill
2. Writing for your reader's brain
3. Before you begin: getting to so what? and who cares?
4. Getting published: manuscripts, journals, and submissions
5. Getting funded: applying for grants
6. Collaborative writing: pass the baton
7. Communicating with the public.

Subject Areas: Biology, life sciences [PS], Medical study & revision guides [MRG], Medical profession [MBD]