Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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.

Reviews

.,."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