Part-Writing, or Modern Counterpoint

Traditions in Modern Korean Women’s Fiction Writing

Writing for professional publication. Part 6: writing the abstract.

How to get your work published is the essence of this series on writing for professional publication. The first four articles focused on the preparation required before you start writing a potential article, and the previous article examined the importance of creating interest in the reader's mind. In this sixth part of the series, John Fowler, an experienced nursing lecturer and author, discus...

Academic Writing Part IA Lent Term

! motivate the question. What is at stake here? Why is this such a significant question? Is it an area of controversy? ! introduce the material you will be using to answer the question (e.g. text[s]), if not defined by the question. ! define the terms of the question if necessary, and/or problematise these if relevant. ! give relevant context for the specific material you will be focusing on. I...

Point-Counterpoint Counterpoint: The Treatment Decision Design

The comparative new-user design is a principled approach to learning about the relative risks and benefits of starting different treatments in patients who have no history of use of the treatments being studied. Vandenbroucke and Pearce (Am J Epidemiol. 2015;182(10):826–833) discuss some problems inherent in incident exposure designs and argue that epidemiology may be harmed by a rigid requirem...

Views among Economists: Professional Consensus or Point-Counterpoint?

Views among Economists: Professional Consensus or Point-Counterpoint? To what degree do economists disagree about key economic questions? To provide evidence, we make use of the responses to a series of questions posed to a distinguished panel of economists put together by the Chicago School of Business. Based on our analysis, we find a broad consensus on these many different economic issues, p...