WriteEasy: A Strategy for More Effective Scientific Writing

About the Book:
It is an essential professional skill to be able to write well. All scientists have to communicate their work through papers, reports and abstracts and they need to acquire funding through carefully written grant applications. However, many scientists feel daunted by the prospect of writing. They do not know where or how to begin and they struggle to keep going to the task is complete. This book is for the daunted. It begins by emphasising the importance of being able to write effectively and addresses the commonest problems encountered by writers. It offers strategies to get started and to overcome any fear of the blank page. It goes on to provide strategies for generating text, editing it and considering its style.

The book is packed with useful advice and tips to help any writer overcome their fear and dislike of writing and to become more effective. The book also includes a extensive list of useful further reading, viewing and browsing.

This book is a companion volume to SpeakEasy and WordEasy, both by the same author.

About the Author:
Allan Gaw, MD, PhD, FRCPath, FFPM, PGCert Med Ed is a Scottish writer and educator. He has been a clinical academic for over 25 years. Most recently he was Professor & Director of the Clinical Research Facility at Queen’s University Belfast, and he previously worked at the University of Glasgow and UT Southwestern in Dallas, Texas.

He is passionate about the need to develop those key writing and presentation skills that are essential in professional life. In addition to over twenty books, he also writes and publishes e-Articles and e-Books on a range of subjects and a blog entitled The Business of Discovery (researchet.wordpress.com)

If you would like to learn more about him and his work, visit his website www.allangaw.com or follow him on twitter @ResearchET.