by Dagmar Gross | Sep 25, 2019 | Writing Advice
LOL ROFL NVM OMG POV TIA FYI IMHO LMK ICYMI These common acronyms and many others are used abundantly in texts, tweets, instant and direct messages, and emails. Acronyms are generally used to save time when texting, and to save space and avoid repetition in papers. In...
by Dagmar Gross | Sep 18, 2019 | Writing Advice
According to my Twitter feed, a number of researchers are unsure of how to approach figure legends. I actually find figure legends fairly formulaic and easy to write. As a first step, I recommend browsing through several recent issues of the journal where you’ll be...
by Dagmar Gross | Sep 11, 2019 | Writing Advice
“A picture is worth a thousand words.” Perhaps. A good figure in a medical journal will save at least 200 to 300 words of text in the Results, and probably some text in the Discussion as well. That’s worth a lot, with today’s strict word length limitations imposed by...
by Dagmar Gross | Sep 4, 2019 | Grammar / Spelling
Welcome to the first Weekly Writing Tip. Today’s topic is my biggest pet peeve – the correct (and incorrect!) use of apostrophes. The poor apostrophe is probably the most misused punctuation mark in the English language. Repeat after me: An apostrophe + “s” is NOT...
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