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How to Find, Understand, and Translate a Medical Study
Course DetailsFrom 100-word front-of-book pieces on diet in Self magazine to 15-page spreads on the future of American health in Newsweek, science and health articles are everywhere. True, they're sometimes disguised as investigative reports, or nutrition and exercise features, but they all come from the same place: medical research. The journalists writing these stories know something you don't: how to find the newest medical studies almost instantly after publication, how to understand them, and how to decode them for readers in the style of a certain magazine or newspaper. Developments in medicine and science constitute a tremendous growth market, but many writers are afraid to touch them. They don't realize that if you want to write with authority on technical topics, all you really need to know is how to get to the source. That means learning how to find the latest research when it's published, discover great nuggets in dense scientific literature, and do an effective interview with the authors -- even if you know little about their field. In this seminar, learn how to read journal articles and interview their authors with authority and confidence. In just a few hours, you'll discover how to differentiate correlation from causation, and how to sort the speculation from the data.Among other important topics, the seminar will cover:
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