Communicating with Language Dangerous Dyads and Troublesome Triads Honest Mistakes and Miscomprehension Tautology Nouns as Modifiers Medical and Pharmaceutical Submission Pointers Jargon Faddy and Supercilious Words Grammar and Usage Loose Use English as She Is Spoke Punctuation Acronyms and Other Abbreviations Word Order Double Meanings Dictionaries and Thesauruses Commonly Misspelled Words Word Origins, Oddities, and Stories Singular Plurals Bibliography Index
EDITH SCHWAGER is a columnist for the American Medical Writers Association's AMWA Journal. She has been copy editor and executive editor of more than 35 books and 1,500 articles on medical, pharmaceutical, and pharmacological topics. She has received every honor given by the AMWA for which she is eligible, including the Swanberg and Golden Apple awards.
.,."heartily recommended for health and science collections of all
sizes."-Medical Reference Quarterly
?...heartily recommended for health and science collections of all
sizes.?-Medical Reference Quarterly
?An entertaining yet thorough guide to correct usage and grammar in
medical writing.?-Sci Life
?Myriad pearls are grouped among instructive chapters . . . This
would be a good first or only guide for the writer of 'a memorandum
or a monograph, a letter or a laboratory record.'?-Journal of the
American Medical Association
?Schwager has packed a lot of wisdom into a compact reference that
most of us would do well to keep at our elbow when preparing a
technical paper.?-BioPharm
?Using this book would benefit anyone who writes or edits
anything.?-Academic Library Book Review
?We as medical communicators have a responsibility to ensure that
our writing is true and comprehensible; with Edith Schwager's
guidance, we cannot fail.?-American Medical Writers Association
Journal
..."heartily recommended for health and science collections of all
sizes."-Medical Reference Quarterly
"An entertaining yet thorough guide to correct usage and grammar in
medical writing."-Sci Life
"Schwager has packed a lot of wisdom into a compact reference that
most of us would do well to keep at our elbow when preparing a
technical paper."-BioPharm
"Using this book would benefit anyone who writes or edits
anything."-Academic Library Book Review
"We as medical communicators have a responsibility to ensure that
our writing is true and comprehensible; with Edith Schwager's
guidance, we cannot fail."-American Medical Writers Association
Journal
"Myriad pearls are grouped among instructive chapters . . . This
would be a good first or only guide for the writer of 'a memorandum
or a monograph, a letter or a laboratory record.'"-Journal of the
American Medical Association
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