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Weekly Writing Tips
Welcome to our weekly dose of writing advice, grammar suggestions, and the occasional nerdy observation.
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Figure Legends
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...
Creating Figures for Your Manuscript
“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...
Apostrophes – They’re not for plurals!
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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