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.

Good Writing Practice - Volume 33, Issue

Section Editors: Wendy Kingdom, Amy Whereat Syntactic alternatives and distractions: Title to a journal article Author: Michael Lewis Schneir, PhD Medical Writing. 2024;33(1):110. https://doi.org/10.56012/xjow9091

The Write Stuff Archive

The Write Stuff Archive

The Write Stuff was the name of EMWA’s journal starting in 1998 and up until the name was changed to Medical Writing in 2012. This archive contains issues of The Write Stuff dating back to 2002.

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Authors and Authorship - Volume 25, Issue

Authorship of medical journal articles has been and continues to bea complicated subject. The unethical practices of guest, honorary, andghost authorship and incomplete or biased disclosure of clinical trialdata have led to guidelines meant to…

President’s Message - Volume 26, Issue

Welcome to the first issue of Medical Writing for 2017. This issue is dedicated to “Writing Better”, something we in the profession are constantly striving for and something which EMWA aims to help us achieve together. One way we achieve this is by…

Profile: An interview with Phil Leventhal - Volume 25, Issue

How and why EMWA members should contribute to the journal At the beginning of this year, Medical Writing (MEW) changed from Maney Publishing to Hastings Printing Company. This has allowed the journal to dispense with the need for copyright transfer…

ICMJE requirements for sharing individual participant data from interventional clinical trials - Volume 28, Issue

Sharing of deidentified/anonymised individual participant data is rapidly becoming the norm. The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors recently implemented requirements for data sharing as a condition for considering publication of…

Working with authors to develop high-quality, ethical clinical manuscripts: Guidance for the professional medical writer - Volume 23, Issue

One measure of career success for clinical researchers is reporting their findings in a peer-reviewed journal. Writing a clinical manuscript that has impact and relevance to their intended audience is crucial for publication success. However,…

Position Statement - AMWA-EMWA-ISMP Joint Position Statement on Medical Publications, Preprints, and Peer Review - Volume 30, Issue

In medical publications, just as in research and development, quality depends on the expertise and integrity of researchers/authors as well as qualified peer reviewers and journal editors. However, the laborious and time-consuming process of the…

Instructions for Authors

Instructions for Authors SCOPE Medical Writing, the official journal of EMWA (the European Medical Writers Association), is a quarterly journal that aims to educate, inform, and entertain medical writers. Medical Writing publishes themed issues…