Successful Scientific Writing: A Step-By-Step Guide for the Biological and Medical Sciences

Janice R Matthews, John M Bowen, Robert W Matthews Cambridge University Press, pounds sterling14.95, pp 181 ISBN 0 521 55948 0 On the day I sat down to write this review, a friend e-mailed me to draw my attention to a news story in the BMJ. It told of a doctor censured by the General Medical Council for falsifying letters from an ethical committee. The forged letters, described as “hopelessly inept,” contained grammatical errors and were couched in language that was difficult to understand. “Just the ticket for a …