In summary:. Making “However” Great Again:. 1. Use the correct grammar!.2. Aggressively delete or change all instances of the word. I’ve learnt this the hard way, and haven’t always got it right. But you can do better! . Over and out.

# Pitfall. Overuse. When you’ve written something, use the “search” function to find all instances of “however”. Try your hardest to remove them all if you can. Some will remain… and that is the perfect number. ✅ “but”, “yet”, “nevertheless”, in contrast”, “whereas” etc.

This pitfall is made worse by the projection that the writer perceives some sophistication in their interrupted sentence. Honestly the reader really doesn’t see it as sophisticated. You can do it now and then…. but multiple occasions in one piece of writing is nauseating.

# 2 Pitfall:. Using “however” as a sentence interrupter? You need 2 commas:. ❌ My thesis was however ruined by poor grammar .✅ My thesis was, however, ruined by poor grammar . Or just write a different sentence. After all, you’ve already used the word “however” too many times!.

That last one with the semicolon: why do it? It may be grammatically correct, but why not just start a new sentence?. If you use a semicolon here it looks rubbish and makes it seem like you’re just trying to be clever. Summary: if you’re joining two clauses, use the word “but”.

# 1 pitfall:. “However” cannot be used to join two independent clauses!. If you want to do this, use the word “but”. ❌ I was tired, however I kept going .✅ I was tired, but I kept going .✅ I was tired. However, I kept going.(✅) I was tired; however, I kept going.

I need to write a thread about the word “however”. This single word is abused so ubiquitously in writing, even by those who should know better (academic writers, teachers, journalists). If you find yourself writing the word “however”, please read this 🧵 🙏🏽.

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A quality metric:. “The time of knife-to-skin for the 3rd case after 2 small cases (e.g. abscesses).”. If that time is beyond midday then the system is broken and needs fixing.

Surgeons:. What solution does your operating theatre have for efficiently doing operations that take 5-10 mins each? . Doing 1-2 of these by midday is not acceptable. We need to share ideas. No point reinventing the wheel in operating theatres across the world!.

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