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Improving the
way you write

Other categories of books include:

Medical writing

Journals and journalism

Grammar and style

The writing process

On writing: a memoir of the craft, Stephen King, London: New English Library, 2001. A exhilarating look at the craft of writing by a best-selling author of horror stories. (see review)

The Oxford guide to writing and speaking, John Seely, Oxford University Press, 1998. A sensible and thorough approach to a wide range of communication issues. (see review)

Wired words: language is the new identity, Steve Morris, Harlow: Pearson Education Ltd, 2000. Writing for the e-mail generation - the implication of new technology on language and communication.

How we write: writing as creative design, Mike Sharples, London: Routledge, 1999. Writing as a succession of engagement and relection - a process of creative design (see review).

Writing on both sides of the brain, Henriette Anne Klauser, New York: Harper Collins, 1987. One of the best books I have come across on how to get through the different stages of the writing process. It suggests some useful techniques, such as mind-mapping and ‘free writing’.

Get ahead, Mind Map your way to success, Vanda North and Tony Buzan, Poole, Dorset: Buzan Centre Ltd, 1991. A useful book for those who want to learn more about the technique of mind mapping (see review).

Advice to writers, edited by Jon Winokur, London: Pavilion Books, 2000. Amusing and at times inspiring compendium of comments on writing from a wide range of writers - such as Samuel Johnson’s ‘Read over your compositions and, when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out’, or James Thurber’s ‘Don’t get it right, get it written’.

Coaching writers, RP Clark and D Fry, New York, St Martin’s Press, 1992. Interesting book from two newspaper editors on how to bring out good writing by encouraging young writers to write. Unlikely to catch on with medical writing?

The coaching pocketbook, Ian Fleming and Allan JD Taylor, Alresford: Management Pocketbooks, 1998. A small and easy-to-read booklet, part of a series on a range of skills, such as time management and personal development.

Writing your dissertation in 15 minutes a day, Joan Bolker, New York: Henry Holt, 1998. Useful for supervisors and supervised, with a particularly helpful passage on how to set up writers’ groups.

Winning the publications game, (second edition), Tim Albert, Oxford: Radcliffe Medical Press, 2000. A step by step process approach to the task of writing a scientific paper and getting it published. See Tim Albert books.