How authors can cope with the burden of english as an international language

Chest

Volumn 129, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1728-1730

  Benfield, John R ^a   Feak, Christine B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

English; Language barrier; Medical writing; Writing

Indexed keywords

COPING BEHAVIOR; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; ENGLISH AS AN INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE; HEART RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE BARRIER; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PEER REVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; WRITING;

EID: 33745118703     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.129.6.1728     Document Type: Article

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