Medical Writing Writing better Lingua Franca and Beyond

Volume 26, Issue 1 - Writing better

Lingua Franca and Beyond

Abstract

This issue of Medical Writing is devoted to the improvement of our writing skills. Can you think of a better topic for our section? There is always room for improvement; whatever you do, and whatever you write improving your skills is a challenge, but for medical writers for whom English is not the first language, this challenge is often much more difficult to tackle.

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