Intended for graduate and postgraduate students in health sciences, this compact but comprehensive guide provides practical advice on writing effective and professional scientific papers. Focused primarily on writing original research papers, but covering reviews, meta-analyses and case studies as well, the work presents best practices for draft writing; developing effective abstracts and keywords; interpretation and use of statistics; presentation with graphs, tables, illustrations and examples; and notation and references. The work includes numerous detailed examples throughout. The contributors are health science researchers and academics from a variety of South Asian institutions. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)