Titlebook: Story, Not Study: 30 Brief Lessons to Inspire Health Researchers as Writers; Lorelei Lingard,Christopher Watling Book 2021 The Editor(s) (

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Mapping the Gapthe white space – the gap – that your work fills. We offer strategies for characterizing the gap, and provide a tool – the knowledge claims table – to facilitate the work of drafting a literature review. The result: a persuasive summary that reveals what’s known . what’s unknown, thus making a strong case for the research.

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Writing a Discussion That Realizes Its Potentialvelop. This chapter offers two strategies to help with this challenge. First we offer the drama metaphor as a way to identify, position and develop the characters in your research story. Second, we describe three storyline structures you can use to design and strengthen the partnership between Introduction and Discussion.

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The Art of Limitationson – The Dismissal, The Confession and The Reflection – and consider the structure and implications of each. We offer a five-step process writers can follow to identify, describe, discuss, assess and organize their Limitations.

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Mastering the Sentencedea for optimal impact. And we review the important signposting roles of topic and transition sentences. We aim to arm writers with the tools to make effective and deliberate choices in constructing sentences that support clear and coherent prose.

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Enlisting the Power of the Verbentifiable target for effective revisions. And we move beyond the oft-repeated advice to write in the active voice, instead aiming for a more nuanced understanding of how control of both the active and the passive voice can strengthen writing.

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The Power of Parallel Structurewithin the same sentence. We also consider opportunities to inject parallel structure into paragraphs to strengthen the coherence of the ideas those paragraphs contain. Once writers begin to recognize where the opportunities for parallel structure lie, they can edit their work, and that of others, with purpose and style.

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Get Control of Your Commase flexible uses of commas that reflect stylistic preferences. And we show that a sentence’s requirement for too many commas may be a signal that the sentence should be simplified or divided. Our aim is to empower writers to put commas to work for them and not against them as they strive for clear and unambiguous writing.

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Avoiding Prepositional Pile-Updding to the word count and creating verbal quicksand for the reader. This chapter will help you to identify prepositions, diagnose your writing for prepositional pile-up, and edit to address this problem when you find it.

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