The study journal
Ideas to explore. Skills to practise. Find something useful for your next study session.
OET Speech Pathology Writing: Use Since and For With a Clear Timeline
Distinguish a starting point from a duration and choose a tense that matches whether the situation continues.
OET Speech Pathology Writing: Link an Assessment Request to Its Documented Purpose
Explain why an assessment is requested without pretending that its result is already known.
OET Speech Pathology Writing: Describe Progress Under the Same Conditions
Keep the audience and task conditions visible when summarising progress from two different observations.
OET Podiatry Writing: Separate a Family Preference From the Professional Plan
Keep requests, preferences and documented recommendations distinct in a concise update.
OET Podiatry Writing: Preserve the Condition in a Conditional Plan
Keep if and when clauses that determine whether a proposed next step should happen.
OET Radiography Writing: Turn an Event Log Into a Useful Handover
Organise relevant events around what the next reader needs to understand and do.
OET Radiography Writing: Avoid Unsupported Comparisons With Earlier Findings
Use improved, unchanged and worsened only when the notes provide a valid basis for comparison.
OET Physiotherapy Writing: Choose Active or Passive for a Clear Reason
Decide what the reader needs to know before changing every sentence into the passive voice.
OET Pharmacy Writing: No Record Is Not Proof of Non-Attendance
Avoid turning missing documentation into a definite claim that an event never happened.
OET Pharmacy Writing: Attribute Self-Reported Information Clearly
Distinguish what the person reports from what was directly measured or documented during the visit.
