Trends in medical writing - Volume 28, Issue

Addressing vaccine hesitancy in writing - Volume 27, Issue

Since the infamous article by Wakefield et al. was published in 1998, diseases once nearly eradicated are re-emerging. As a result, research has focused on communication strategies that can successfully combat vaccine hesitancy. Current research…

Good Writing Practice - Volume 25, Issue

Personalism results from a story-line narration rather than a thematic-focused description. This story-line narration is focused on agents as sentence (or clause) subjects and their actions as verbs, rather than themes represented by noun subjects…

Good Writing Practice - Volume 25, Issue

Coordination non parallelism is the lack of structural symmetry between coordinated sentence constituents that are intended to be equivalent in importance. A classic example of such non parallelism is “I love fishing, swimming, and to run.” In this…

Good Writing Practice - Volume 29, Issue

The absolute phrase contains a noun headword and a present participle.

Veterinary Medical Writing - Volume 28, Issue

Why re-invent the wheel? There are inventions and lessons learned that we can implement from human medicine. We herein report an easy option to acquire routinely collected data to foster research as already practiced in human medicine.

Good Writing Practice - Volume 26, Issue

Conceptual component omission is a distraction to a content expert who expects specific argumentative conceptual components in the various sections of a journal article. As evidence, some of the components have become standardised in structured…

Good Writing Practice - Volume 27, Issue

Nominalisation is the transformation of a precise verb into another sentence constituent, usually a noun (nominalisation), sometimes an adjective (adjectivalisation). This syntactic transformation elicits the grammatical necessity to add…

Good Writing Practice - Volume 29, Issue

The misagreement in number (singular vs. plural) between subject and verb is caused by subject number ambiguity, either intrinsic (the subject itself) or extrinsic (the effect of subject modification).

Good Writing Practice - Volume 26, Issue

Syntactic Structure - Inter-sentenceIncrementalism: SentencesInter-sentence incrementalism is an expansion of information, often secondary, into a sentence rather than a reduction of the information to a clause or phrase and incorporation (sentence…