Essentials of writing biomedical research papers / Mimi Zeiger.

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_ 46 -- Exercise 2.6 Parallelism in Comparisons 47 -- Avoid Writing Flaws 48 -- Chapter 3 Paragraph Structure 51 -- Organization 51 -- Exercise 3.1 Topic Sentences and Supporting Sentences 56 -- Continuity 58 -- Exercise 3.2 Repeating Key Terms Exactly and Early 64 -- A Lumped Transport Model to Determine Resin Capacity as a Function of Bed Height and Flow Rate 64 -- Exercise 3.3 Linking Key Terms 69 -- Exercise 3.4 Repeating and Linking Key Terms 70 -- Exercise 3.5 Value of Transitions 73 -- Exercise 3.6 Transition Phrases 76 -- Exercise 3.7 Transition Clauses 80 -- Exercise 3.8 Keeping a Consistent Point of View and a Consistent Order 88 -- Exercise 3.9 Signaling Subtopics 95 -- Exercise 3.10 Parallel Form and Signaling Subtopics 96 -- Emphasis 98 -- Exercise 3.11 Condensing 102 -- Summary of Guidelines for Paragraph Structure 103 -- Section II

_ Abstracts of Descriptive Papers 275 -- Abstracts of Methods Papers 286 -- Abstracts for Meetings 290 -- Summary of Guidelines for Abstracts 294 -- Exercise 10.1 Abstracts 297 -- Chapter 11 Title 300 -- Functions 300 -- Content of Titles for Hypothesis-Testing Papers 300 --d Content of Titles for Descriptive Papers 302 -- Content of Titles for Methods Papers 303 -- Hallmarks of a Good Title 305 -- Details 311 -- Running Titles 311 -- Summary of Guidelines for Titles 314 -- Exercise 11.1 Titles 317 -- Chapter 12 Big Picture 319 -- Checklist for the Big Picture 319 -- Exercise 12.1 Seeing the Big Picture 324 -- Reaching The Goal: Suggestions For Writing 340 -- Writing the First Draft 340 -- Revising: Using the Checklists 342 -- Rewards of Clear Writing 342 -- Revisions of Exercises 345 -- Words Explained in the Text 433.

_ Details 165 -- Summary of Guidelines for Results 168 -- Exercise 6.1 Results 170 -- Exercise 6.2 Results 174 -- Chapter 7 Discussion 176 -- Functions 176 -- Story Line 176 -- Content 176 -- Organization 183 -- Length 199 -- Subheadings 199 -- Summary of Guidelines for Discussions 201 -- Exercise 7.1 Following the Story in a Discussion 203 -- Exercise 7.2 Message and Story in the Discussion 211 -- Section III Supporting Information 221 -- Telling a Story 250 -- Exercise 8.1 Design of Figures and Tables and Their Relation to the Text 258 -- Exercise 8.2 Table Design and Relation to the Text 259 -- Purposes 260 -- Accuracy 261 -- Incorporating References Into the Text 262 -- Systems for Citing References 264 -- Summary of Guidelines for References 266 -- Chapter 10 Abstract 269 -- Function 269 -- Abstracts of Hypothesis-Testing Papers 269 --

_ Goal: Clear Writing 1 -- Purpose of This Book 1 -- Reasons for Writing Clearly 2 -- Scope of This Book 3 -- Approach Taken in This Book 3 -- An Overview of the Main Principles of Writing Presented in This Book 4 -- Section I Building Blocks of Writing 9 -- Chapter 1 Word Choice 11 -- Exercise 1.1 Principles of Word Choice 12 -- Exercise 1.2 Words Carelessly Interchanged 16 -- Words Carelessly Interchanged 17 -- Chapter 2 Sentence Structure 22 -- Express the Core of the Message in the Subject, Verb, and Completer 22 -- Exercise 2.1 Express the Core of the Message in the Subject, Verb, and Completer 27 -- Avoid Noun Clusters 30 -- Exercise 2.2 Untangling Noun Clusters 32 -- Write Short Sentences 33 -- Exercise 2.3 Overloaded Sentences 35 -- Use Clear Pronouns 36 -- Exercise 2.4 Clear Pronouns 39 -- Put Parallel Ideas in Parallel Form 40 -- Exercise 2.5 Parallelism in Sentences

_ Text of The Biomedical Research Paper 105 -- Functions 107 -- Story Line 107 -- Content for Hypothesis-Testing Papers 107 -- Organization for Hypothesis-Testing Papers 108 -- Writing 113 -- Length 119 -- Content and Organization for Descriptive Papers 119 -- Content and Organization for ´Methods Papers´ 120 -- Details 120 -- Summary of Guidelines for Introductions of Hypothesis-Testing Papers and of Descriptive Papers 122 -- Chapter 5 Materials and Methods 127 -- Function 127 -- Story Line 127 -- Content 128 -- Organization 135 -- Length 138 -- Details 138 -- Summary of Guidelines for the Materials and Methods Section 143 -- Exercise 5.1 A Clearly Written Methods Section 146 -- Exercise 5.2 Content and Organization in the Methods Section 151 -- Chapter 6 Results 154 -- Functions 154 -- Story Line 154 -- Content 155 -- Organization 156 -- Emphasis 160 -- Length 165 --