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Book for sale : Fundamentals of Writing for the Biomedical Sciences (322 pp.) Remaining copies of an out-of-print book:

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Offers comprehensive guidelines on scientific writing style, grammar, punctuation, organization, and revision. The book starts before traditional scientific writing guides begin and gives the essentials of how to write forcefully, concisely, and clearly using examples from multiple biomedical disciplines. Originally published in 1991 by the Div. of Medical Laboratory Science and translated and published in Japanese in 1994.

Includes practice exercises with suggested answers, as well as learning objectives and content presentation with examples.

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