Public Health : MPH 615 Environmental Health: Publishing

Writing for Publication deals with a number of generic issues around academic writing (including intellectual property rights) and then considers writing refereed journal articles, books and book chapters in detail as well as other, less common, forms of publication for academics. The aim is to demystify the process and to help you to become a confident, competent, successful and published writer.

Describing how to think beyond the prevailing IMRAD article format, this book focuses on the nature, content, domains of thought, and meanings of medical articles. The ideas and underlying propositions in this book are complementary to specific requirements appropriate for each type of medical journal. After reading this book you will better understand: how to write what is considered the most important type of medical article, the research-based medical article, how to write an evidence-based argumentative medical article, the challenges of clinical case reporting, and the general framework of medical and research ethics.

Introduction -- Articles and approaches. The research article -- The review article -- The theoretical article -- Mechanics and style. Bias-free writing -- Abstract and key words -- Capitalization -- Figures -- Italics -- Numbers -- Publishers -- Punctuation -- Quotations -- References -- Statistics and math -- Subheadings -- Tables -- Usage -- Submission and publication. Journal submissions -- Peer review -- Copyright and permissions -- Fair use and public domain.

"They Say / I Say" identifies the key rhetorical moves in academic writing, showing students how to frame their arguments in the larger context of what others have said and providing templates to help them make those moves. And, because these moves are central across all disciplines, the book includes chapters on writing in the sciences, writing in the social sciences, and--new to this edition--writing about literature.

This book is intended to enable emerging scholars and anyone else wishing to improve their writing skills to better understand the parts of a manuscript and how they fit together and support each other to create a quality publication. Our goal is to fill a conceptual and practical gap within the literature by bringing together in one book different perspectives and providing information about different types of manuscripts that a scholarly writer is likely to encounter.