Dr. Judith M. Newman

Templates

Developing templates for different writing tasks is one way to speed up your writing. An effective template provides you with a ready made architecture for your document; it reminds you to include specific information. A template is easily adapted if your categories change.

Here is an example for doing synopses of clinical trial studies:

REPRINT REVIEW FOR CLINICAL TRIALS

TITLE  
AUTHORS  
JOURNAL  
OBJECTIVE  
DESIGN

Duration of Study

PATIENTS

Population

Exclusion

METHODS  
RESULTS  
ADVERSE EVENTS  
KEY QUOTES  
KEY CONCLUSIONS