This course is designed for the second-year medical students. It aims to develop students’ ability to communicate when using English for medical purposes and research. It focuses on all four language skills – speaking, listening, reading and writing. Students will gain proficiency in medical terminology and linguistic frameworks across diverse contexts, thereby enabling them to engage in effective communication with patients, collaborate with peers, deliver presentations at conferences, and compose scholarly articles.
This book introduces research design and methodology in scientific research. It is important, in the editors’ eyes, to elucidate what research and science are, and this comprises the main part of the first chapter. There are eight other chapters in this book, covering the preliminary stages of research; sources of bias in research design; common measurement issues and strategies in research design; general types of research designs and approaches; the many forms of validity as well as how to maximize validity in research; issues in data preparation, analyses, and interpretation; ethical considerations in research; the dissemination of research results and the distillation of major principles of research design and methodology.
Intended for aspiring as well as practicing professionals in the medical and biological sciences, this sourcebook covers a wide range of topics that are important in graduate training, yet not traditionally considered part of formal curricula, in the field of the philosophy of science, ethics in scientific research, and research methodology and strategies. The information presented also facilitates communication across conventional disciplinary boundaries, in line with the increasingly multidisciplinary nature of modern research projects. The book includes extensive online resources such as further reading suggestions, data files, and statistical tables.
This book offers an approach to thinking about sentence, this fundamental unit of written and spoken language. Not a manual, not a handbook, not a textbook, this slim volume is a more of a philosophical treatise, a careful and thoughtful reflection on prose style. Rather than disseminating "how to" knowledge, Fish exposes readers to a sensibility – a consciousness of and sensitivity to style. Fish hopes to teach the fundamental motions of sentence structure that enable thought and meaning. The book dissects the good sentence and teaches the reader how to reconstruct it.
This book teaches how to analyze the arguments from tweets to infographics to student newspaper articles and how to create convincing arguments of your own. It teaches all facets of argument, including classical, visual, and multimedia argument. This book consists of 22 chapters divided into 4 parts. Part 1 deals with reading and understanding arguments, including types of arguments and fallacies of arguments. Part 2 deals with writing arguments, basically how to structure arguments. Part 3 deals with style and presentation in arguments, highlighted by the multimedia arguments. Part 4 deals with research and arguments, paying special attention to aspects of arguments in the research activity.
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