How to Write a Paper

by George M. Hall

This book...should be recommended reading to everyone either contemplating or involved in medical research. Pre-hospital Immediate Care

A well written, concise text giving clear guidance on how to write all the types of scientific the various sections of a scientific paper, case reports, reviews, abstracts letters. It also gives some insight into the world of scientific publishing, outlining the roles of publishers, manuscript assessors, and electronic publishing. With all major points summarised in boxes, it will appeal equally to novices and old hands suffering from writer?s block, as well as those for whom English is not their first language.

Genres: Science, Research

147 pages, Paperback

First published August 18, 1998

Reviews

[Ihor Kolesnyk · Rating 4 out of 5]

Чудова книга для тих, хто хоче зрозуміти як написти наукову статтю, але у медичній сфері.

[Maram . · Rating 3 out of 5]

a good reference for academic writing.

[Dina · Rating 2 out of 5]

For a book dedicated to scientific writing, it was full of surprising poor writing. The only thing I found useful was the well-structured list of topics it was supposed to cover. However, most authors offered no specific clear advice and some did not even stick to the topic of the chapter. I wanted to add examples but this book was so useless I don’t wanna waste more time looking. Some who wrote more readable chapters did not include enough details or focused on less relevant subtopics too much. Since this is a very short book, this ineffective writing guaranteed the book is not informative even as a basic overview. I have read a share of books and articles on writing in general and specifically of research papers, and in comparison, this book had only about 10% of what you are normally taught. I think this book could be a very basic introduction of what you should learn when starting a paper, but it definitely will not teach you how to actually write a good one. I was thankfully given my book for free, and I think it is not worth at all the ~€40 it is sold for; there are way more useful (and free!) papers that give the main concepts and checklists for how to write various sections, and some interesting books that elaborate on what is important when styling and editing the content.