The Crofter: Sustainable Communications - Volume 30, Issue

Greetings from the croft! I think it’s a neat coincidence that I have the pleasure to write my first editorial to this edition of The Crofter in the Medical Writing special issue on mentorship. I don’t have an official mentor but ever since I…

The past - the present - the future - Volume 31, Issue

Dear colleagues, friends, and EMWA members,Happy 30th EMWA anniversary!We have an exciting new year ahead of us. To celebrate EMWA’s 30th anniversary, we will take a deep dive into EMWA’s history, celebrate our present accomplishments, and aim to…

AI-based plagiarism detectors: Plagiarism fighters or makers? - Volume 32, Issue

Plagiarism damages the biomedical academic publication domain. Artificial intelligence (AI) is a rising hope in academic plagiarism hunting. However, new AI-based tools are available online to assist with plagiarising! This article presents…

Beyond limits – Leading at the Edge - Volume 30, Issue

Every member of a working group or a team has a defined role, such as that of a leader or a mentor. Although every role has its own distinct definition, a great mentor can be a great leader and vice versa. One of the finest mentor leaders, explorer…

Writing for Lay Audiences - Volume 24, Issue

Trends in medical writing - Volume 28, Issue

Addressing vaccine hesitancy in writing - Volume 27, Issue

Since the infamous article by Wakefield et al. was published in 1998, diseases once nearly eradicated are re-emerging. As a result, research has focused on communication strategies that can successfully combat vaccine hesitancy. Current research…

Good Writing Practice - Volume 27, Issue

Good Writing Practice - Volume 29, Issue

In addition to subject-verb misagreement in grammatical number, a misagreement in number is common between a subject and other sentence constituents, which appears in the experimental and contextual sections of a journal article.

My First Medical Writing - Volume 29, Issue

Humans have long known intuitively that spending time in nature is beneficial for our health without understanding exactly how or why. Forty years of research has repeatedly shown that exposure to nature is indeed associated with a variety of…