Medical Proofreading Tips

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Medical Proofreading

• Steps to Proofread your Medical Manuscript

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Research Paper Submission

• A scientist is confident of his research paper
  while submitting it to the journal. He knows he
  has worked hard, conducted an excellent study
  which would bring about a turnover in his field.
  He expects the peer reviewers to understand the
  importance of his work and accept it for
  publication.
• But, unfortunately, his paper gets rejected. And
  the reason is poorly written research paper.

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Proofread your Own Paper

• Proofreading your own paper is not a can of
  worms. It is the process of correcting your own
  paper after writing the first draft. You may
  require multiple drafts until you reach the final
  manuscript.
• Once you complete your manuscript, do not hurry
  to submit it. Though it was hard writing it,
  continue working on it till you reach the final
  manuscript.

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Steps to Proofread your Medical Manuscript 
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• 1) Print your paper
• Always proofread the hard copy of your
  manuscript. This makes it easy to see any
  differences in the written document and what you
  typed on the computer.
• 2) Take a break
• Do not proofread immediately after writing.
  Take a break of a day or at least few hours. This
  helps to view the document with fresh eyes and
  mistakes are unlikely to be ignored.

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• 3) Read your paper out loud
• When you read your paper out loud, you can
  detect sentences and sections that sound weird or
  make little sense. Mark such errors with a pen,
  edit them, and re-read.
• 4) Imagine yourself as the reviewer
• To medical proofreading, you need to
  disengage yourself as the author. Pretend youre
  the reviewer who has never read your paper
  before.

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• 5) Be brutal
• Keep your ego aside and become your papers worst
  enemy. Use your red pen and try these
• Dont use adverbs and adjectives as far as
  possible. 
• Reduce each sentence to its essential parts 
• Write short paragraphs.  
• Avoid too many dependent clauses.  
• Be the authority. Dont offer an opinion.  

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• 6) Read your paper from back to front
• This slows down your brain and youll be
  amazed at how many mistakes you can find now.
• 7) Dont rely on spell check
• Spell check is a useful tool to find most
  spelling mistakes. However, it wont find
  inappropriate words like He accepts the peer
  reviewers to understand the importance of his
  work and expect it for publication.

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• The initial writing of the research paper is
  easy. But, the real work lies in improving it to
  communicate what you want. This is only possible
  through medical proofreading and editing. So,
  submit your manuscript only when you are
  convinced with your self-proofread and edited
  document.

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