I’ve spent the better part of a decade writing case reports, and I can tell you that most people get it wrong the first time. They think it’s just storytelling, a narrative about an interesting patient or clinical scenario. But it’s not. A case report is a specific, disciplined form of medical communication that follows […]
I’ve spent the last seven years reading student essays, and I can tell you with absolute certainty that the question of evidence haunts people more than they admit. Not the big, obvious question–everyone knows they need evidence. The real question is the one nobody asks out loud: how much is enough, and what actually counts? […]
I’ve read thousands of college essays. Not an exaggeration. Between my years as a writing tutor, my work with the National Council of Teachers of English, and my stint helping students prepare for standardized writing assessments, I’ve seen formatting mistakes that range from mildly annoying to genuinely catastrophic. The thing is, most of these errors […]