writing.md

Resources for writing

Phrasing

• United Nations Guidelines for gender-inclusive language in English
• European Union Interinstitutional Style Guide useful for country names
• Use adherence or concordance rather than compliance when discussing uptake of treatment (suggested in From Chaos to Coercion)
• Follow the epidemiologic equivalent to the Bender rule -- always state the location being investigated
• The Health Foundation style guide

Specific suggestions to avoid confusion in time when communicating to others (particularly AmEng speakers)

• Use fortnightly to mean every fourteen days and semiweekly to mean twice a week. Avoid biweekly
• Use biennial to mean every two years and biannual only to mean twice a year
• Avoid use of quite; Americans think it's an amplifier and will misunderstand. Instead use rather when amplifying

Readibility

Remember to left-align text for readibility (here I disagree with Trees, Maps, and Theorems). For LaTeX add

\usepackage{ragged2e}
\setlength{\RaggedRightParindent}{\parindent}

to the preamble and

\RaggedRight

after `\begin{document}

Miscellaneous

The Journal of Clinical Epidemiology has a Writing Tips series NB the authorship one mentioned only ICMJE and CReDIT is more inclusive to e.g. research engineers

Images

For slidepacks etc.

• Biorender
• Wellcome collection
• USCDC Public health image library