This Week In Words

ByNicola

I’ve just finished editing a huge hematology review article on erythropoietin, so it seemed fitting to create this week’s Wordle cloud from the work I did on that. 

This is a word cloud generated by the website Wordle. It consists of a mixture of dozens of words chosen from text that had been inserted into the app based on scientific writing work I did in the week prior to initially writing this post.

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