Manuscript editing as a way of teaching academic writing: Experience from a small scientific journal

Journal of B.U.ON.

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 153-159

  Mišak, Aleksandra ^a   Marušić, Matko ^a   Marušić, Ana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Academic writing; Journal authors; Journal editors; Manuscript editing; Medical school

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTHOR; AWARENESS; EDITOR; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; METHODOLOGY; NARRATIVE; PUBLISHING; QUALITY CONTROL; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; TEACHING; WRITING;

EDUCATION, MEDICAL; MANUSCRIPTS, MEDICAL; PERIODICALS; WRITING;

EID: 33751034564     PISSN: 11070625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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