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Bruce B. Dan, MD

JAMA. 1985;254(19):2802.

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Casual inspection of the several hundred papers that arrive at THE JOURNAL each month reveals that about a third of them have obviously been produced on a word processor. Interestingly, a larger fraction of manuscripts from university-affiliated researchers are prepared with the help of computer software, bespeaking the availability of word processing equipment at those institutions.

Besides the ease of initial preparation of the manuscript, word processing allows authors to respond to editors' and reviewers' requests for revision with just a few strategic keystrokes. Not only has word processing reduced the quantity of typing necessary to prepare a manuscript, but it has also improved the quality of the writing. Many authors state that they are no longer limited to one or two drafts of their work; word processing has given them the opportunity to polish the paper a dozen times over.

Despite the fact that medical publications have gone electronic, . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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