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WriteEasy: A Strategy for More Effective Scientific Writing
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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
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.
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
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.
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84 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 9, 2013
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About the author
Allan Gaw
32 books23 followersAllan Gaw is a Scot who lives and works near Glasgow. He studied medicine and is a pathologist by training but a writer by inclination. Having worked in the NHS and universities in Scotland, England, Northern Ireland and the US, he now devotes his time to writing.
Most of his published work to date is non-fiction. These include medical textbooks and regular magazine articles on topics as diverse as the thalidomide story, the medical challenges of space travel and the medico-legal consequences of the Hillsborough disaster.
More recently, he has been writing short stories, poetry and novels. He won the UK Classical Association Creative Writing Competition, the International Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize, the International Globe Soup 7 day Writing Challenge and was runner-up in the Glencairn Glass/Bloody Scotland Short Crime Fiction Competition. He has also had prose published in the literary anthologies, From Glasgow to Saturn and anthologies and the Edinburgh Literary Salon.
His poetry has been published by Dreich, Soor Ploom Press, Black Bough Poetry, SCAP and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. His debut poetry collection, Love & Other Diseases, was published in 2023 by Seahorse Publications. His second poetry collection, The Sounds Men Make, was published in 2025, also by Seahorse.
His debut novel, The Silent House of Sleep, won the 2024 Bloody Scotland Debut novel of the year. His second novel, The Moon’s More Feeble Fire, was longlisted for the McIlvanney Prize The third book in the Dr Jack Cuthbert series, To the Shades Descend is out now and the fourth, The Shadows and the Dust, will be released in January 2026.
You can read more about him and his work at his website: https://researchet.wordpress.com
Most of his published work to date is non-fiction. These include medical textbooks and regular magazine articles on topics as diverse as the thalidomide story, the medical challenges of space travel and the medico-legal consequences of the Hillsborough disaster.
More recently, he has been writing short stories, poetry and novels. He won the UK Classical Association Creative Writing Competition, the International Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize, the International Globe Soup 7 day Writing Challenge and was runner-up in the Glencairn Glass/Bloody Scotland Short Crime Fiction Competition. He has also had prose published in the literary anthologies, From Glasgow to Saturn and anthologies and the Edinburgh Literary Salon.
His poetry has been published by Dreich, Soor Ploom Press, Black Bough Poetry, SCAP and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. His debut poetry collection, Love & Other Diseases, was published in 2023 by Seahorse Publications. His second poetry collection, The Sounds Men Make, was published in 2025, also by Seahorse.
His debut novel, The Silent House of Sleep, won the 2024 Bloody Scotland Debut novel of the year. His second novel, The Moon’s More Feeble Fire, was longlisted for the McIlvanney Prize The third book in the Dr Jack Cuthbert series, To the Shades Descend is out now and the fourth, The Shadows and the Dust, will be released in January 2026.
You can read more about him and his work at his website: https://researchet.wordpress.com
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