PURPOSE The development, implementation, and evaluation of a writing program with a formalized writing project as a component of postgraduate year 1 (PGY1) and postgraduate year 2 (PGY2) pharmacy residencies are described. SUMMARY The writing program at Georgia Regents Medical Center/University of Georgia College of Pharmacy, a collaborative and jointly funded program, was initiated in the 20...

Teachers in Anglophone universities have often attributed Chinese ESL students’ plagiarism to “cultural difference”, the implication being that what is considered English-speaking world may not be seen as China. We believe this assumption needs questioned on basis of systematic evidence gathered from local L1 (first language) context; a large collection writing textbooks published over time pot...

The medical writings of early medieval western Europe c. 700 – c. 1000 have often been derided for their disorganised appearance, poor Latin, nebulous conceptual framework, admixtures of magic and folklore, and general lack of those positive features that historians attribute to ancient or later medieval medicine. This paper attempts to rescue the period from its negative image. It examines a n...

Dear Editor, Many years ago unprofessional supervisors were identified as one of the main reasons for the withdrawal of a student’s study. Recently in some universities, unethical supervision has become an increasing concern of students and ethic committees. The last few years has witnessed an increase in the withdrawal rate of students who quit their study because of the poor guidance of their...

The author uses mentoring theory to create a curricular model that teaches graduate students to produce publishable scholarly writing. The writing process and feedback (WPF) model presents getting published as an appropriate expectation of all graduate students. The model includes structured sequential classroom assignments, student editorial review boards, guest classroom appearances by publis...

objective: lack of scientific writing skills is one major problem encountered for publication of research results of iranian scientists in accredited journals. as the result, many research projects or dissertation findings remain unpublished. this study aimed to assess the quality of writing of the “results” section of some original articles published in iranian farsi and international english ...