Exam 16: Writing and Publishing in the Health Professions

Insufficient acknowledgement is a form of plagiarism that restates a phrase or passage that provides the same meaning, but in a different form without attribution to the original author.

What are two key ways to overcome initial fears when presenting your research?

Scientific papers are the vital currency of academic work and the dissemination of knowledge.

In healthcare scholarship, which type of document holds more value within peer-reviewed publications?

Policy papers are not considered legitimate forms of scholarship because they do not involve research data.

Healthcare providers should not be concerned with writing skills and aspects of publishing papers because they are clinicians, not writers.

Which of the following is considered the "heart" of research writing?

A critical argument describes a text that is coherent and consists of a series of reasons, statements, or facts intended to support or establish a point of view.

The peer-review process is regarded as an extension of the basic principles of science and scholarship and is considered a critical aspect of quality control.

Which of the following terms is used when the plagiarist intertwines ideas with the original author's words?

Posters are not generally considered legitimate forms of academic scholarship.

To get published, it is best to submit the manuscript to multiple journals concurrently.

What organization produces the "Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals"?

What are the two distinctive types of research titles?

Consistency is one of the most important aspects of reference citations in an academic paper.

Once a manuscript has been submitted and officially accepted for publication within a journal, the ownership (i.e., copyright) of the article still remains with author, not the journal.

Which is an important tip for presenting posters?

Which type of document is usually the result of reviews by experts who then recommend a course of action that can involve a clinical or therapeutic case?

Policy papers and the term "white papers" can be used interchangeably.

Individuals who are bad writers simply have no natural talent for it.