AuthorAID: An international service and chance to serve - Volume 22, Issue

Medical and other researchers in developing countries conduct much valuable research. Yet difficulties in writing and publication often prevent this research from being widely known. AuthorAID (http://www.authoraid.info), a project of the…

Effective authoring of clinical study reports: A companion guide - Volume 23, Issue

‘Why write a clinical study report (CSR)? What are the guidance documents? Can I interpret them? Can I deliver my CSR on time?’ This article addresses these questions – and others, provides a companion guide to CSR authoring for preregistration drug…

Changing methods to assess targeted therapies in oncology - Volume 27, Issue

New methods have been developed to evaluate targeted therapies, since the classic sequence – phase I, toxicity; phase II, efficacy; phase III, comparison with standard treat ment – is no longer effective for evaluating these new treatments. In…

Veterinary Medical Writing - Volume 32, Issue

Welly boots and spreadsheets: A rough guide to production animal medicine for medical writers There have been countless columns written about “herd immunity” during and since the COVID-19 pandemic. But what does it take to write about a real-life…

The 360° approach to authoring risk management plans - Volume 28, Issue

Amidst the dynamic landscape of pharma - covigilance legislation, medical writers have been gaining increased visibility and importance beyond what had been their traditional role of coordinating and facil it - ating the development of risk…

Gained in Translation - Volume 25, Issue

Editorial Who is qualified to author a medical translation? This is one of those topics that we often read about on professional translation forums and discussion groups. It is, indeed, a never ending discussion.

Unlocking new efficiencies: How structured content authoring is streamlining the production of clinical documents for the pharmaceutical industry - Volume 32, Issue

Current practice requires clinical and regulatory documents to be created and updated manually by medical writers throughout a product’s development. Conventionally, document content is unstructured, with freeform text, figures, and tables that the…

Erratum - Volume 22, Issue

http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/2047480613Z.000000000123 We would like to acknowledge an error in the above book review published in Vol. 22 No. 3. The correction has been made to the online version of the article. The review author should have been…

Erratum - Volume 23, Issue

The WebscoutKarin Eichele   http://journal.emwa.org/regulatory-writing-basics/the-webscout/ We would like to acknowledge an error in the above section in Vol. 23 No. 2. The correction has been made to the online version of the article. The…

Good Writing Practice - Volume 33, Issue

Section Editors: Wendy Kingdom, Amy Whereat

Methods of a journal article

Author: Michael Lewis Schneir

Medical Writing. 2024;33(2):98. https://doi.org/10.56012/tbyq9909