Author Michaela Panter, PhD

This editing tip demonstrates common instances of and ways to avoid incorrect noun pluralization.

Want to publish your research faster? In this article, you will find best practices for speeding up time to publication. Read to learn more!

As part of our advice about concise writing, this article shows the problems with too many prepositions in writing and demonstrates how to avoid their overuse.

Plagiarism is a form of academic misconduct and can thus lead to dismissal from universities and other research institutions, article rejections or retractions from journals, and decreased credibility as a researcher. How do you know if you're plagiarizing?

How can you avoid plagiarism and increase your manuscript's likelihood of publication, especially in journals using plagiarism detection tools?

Clarifying the difference between 'case' and 'patient' in medical or clinical research

Some terminology and phrasing are essentially exclusive to case reports, although they may even be deemed incorrect or awkward in other contexts. Here are some examples.

Here, we discuss small stylistic and formatting touches that may help to increase the clarity of clinical case reports.

This article covers commonly confused terms in clinical medicine manuscripts and case reports.