Journal writing strategy is useful for improving students' English as a foreign language writing. However, few researchers have investigated the use of journal in Palestinian instructional settings. The current study examined effect one types i.e., personal experience journals on fluency and anxiety sample students majoring at Al-Aqsa University. researcher administered test closed-questionnair...

ST2 GP trainees at the Imperial College London GP Specialty Training Programme have the opportunity of amalgamating a 6-month general practice placement with an Innovative Training Post (ITP) of our choice. Rather than choose a more typical ITP such as rheumatology, oncology, or diabetes, I decided to explore the world of medical writing. Medical writing is not something most GP trainees will h...

The American writer Ernest Hemingway, 1898--1961, said the following about the art of writing: ‘‘We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master’’. This phrase also applies to writers of scientific texts. We are apprentices and self-taught writers in this difficult task of producing quality scientific writing. Creating a good text is the result of the hard work of writing. ...

The paper provides 'rules of thumb' for writing research articles (RA) and getting them published. These were discussed during the "Scientific writing course" organized for ITC PhD students by Cressie Communication Services. Important aspects of macro and sub-structure of a paper were selected through group discussions. The substructure and functions of different sections of RAs are described. ...

The high percentage of international students currently enrolled in many graduate engineering programs in North America presents an additional pedagogical challenge for faculty. Many professors find that they are spending an inordinate amount of their time doing something that is not explicitly stated in their job descriptions—correcting the writing of their international students. This paper d...

Having a formalized mechanism for linking novice authors and experienced authors can assist budding writers. Scientific writing is a skill that many practitioners are not taught in school as this type of writing is not generally used in clinical practice. Many of the submissions to the Journal come from authors with a wealth of clinical experience but who lack scientific writing experience; mor...

Good scientific writing is a skill researchers seek to acquire. Textbook literature provides guidelines to improve scientific writing, for instance, “use active voice when describing your own work”. In this paper we investigate to what extent researchers adhere to textbook principles in their articles. In our analyses we examine a set of selected principles which (i) are general and (ii) verifi...

Many undergraduate and graduate students understand neither the process of scientific writing nor the significance of peer review. In response, some instructors have created writing assignments that teach or mimic parts of the scientific publishing process. However, none fully reproduced peer review and revision of papers together with the writing and publishing process from research to final, ...

Historically, nursing education has recognized that writing enhances critical thinking, the basis of the clinical reasoning process. The online learning recently adopted by Nursing involves considerable writing, which may enhance critical thinking more than face-to-face courses. In the study reported here, the critical thinking and writing experiences of 34 registered nurses in an online course...