Writing Well: A Writing Style Checklist to Promote Publication Among Practitioners

摘要

Remember the old adage: practice makes perfect? Well, here's our new twist on it: "Publications about practice perfects the profession" . . . meaning, if we want to be effective, the health education and promotion profession needs the input of practitioners-in writing!No matter who you are or in what setting you work, you, the frontline practitioner, have something to say that your colleagues and related medical, health, and human and social service professionals, among others, need to hear. We need practitioners-particularly those of you on the frontlines-to write about what you've done and what you've learned. There are knowledge gaps to be filled and issues to be raised that only practitioners, with their day in and day out field experience, can provide.