Medical Writing Writing better

Volume 26, Issue 1 - Writing better

March 2017

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Editorial

Writing Better

President's Message

President’s Message

EMWA News

EMWA News

EMWA-AMWA-ISMPP Joint Position Statement

Advancing the Medical Writing profession: The Joint Position Statement on the Role of Professional Medical Writers

AMWA-EMWA-ISMPP Joint Position Statement on the Role of Professional Medical Writers

EMWA's Special Interest Groups

EMWA’s Special Interest Groups (SIGs)

Writing better workbook

Finding the action in your writing: Avoiding nominalisation

Removing the dead wood

Writing economically in medicine and science: Tips for tackling wordiness

How to shorten a text by up to 30% and improve clarity without losing information

Troublesome words

Can you recognise the four main ways that English sentences can be structured?

Three strategies to help you write clearly for a lay audience

Structuring paragraphs

A checklist to improve your writing

Feature Articles

Results of the 2016 EMWA member survey

Regular Sections

News from the EMA

Getting Your Foot in the Door

Teaching Medical Writing

In the Bookstores

Lingua Franca and Beyond

The Webscout

Good Writing Practice

Medical Communications

Profile: An Interview with Michael Markie - an open science and open data advocate

Out On Our Own

Out on Our Own

Search

Links

The Write Stuff Archive Contact Instructions for Authors Article Template (Word) Journal Policies

Scope

Medical Writing is a quarterly publication that aims to educate and inform medical writers in Europe and beyond. Each issue focuses on a specific theme, and all issues include feature articles and regular columns on topics relevant to the practice of medical writing. We welcome articles providing practical advice to medical writers; guidelines and reviews/summaries/updates of guidelines published elsewhere; original research; opinion pieces; interviews; and review articles.

Medical Writing is listed in the following indexes:

Editoral Board

Editor-in-Chief

Raquel Billiones

Co-Editors

Evguenia Alechine

Jonathan Pitt

Managing Editor

Victoria White

Deputy Managing Editor

Alicia Brooks Waltman

Associate Editors

Anuradha Alahari

Jennifer Bell

Nicole Bezuidenhout

Claire Chang

Barbara Grossman

Sarah Milner

John Plant

Sampoorna Rappaz

Amy Whereat

Section Editors

Daniela Kamir

AI/Automation

Jennifer Bell

Biotechnology

Nicole Bezuidenhout 

Digital Communication

Somsuvro Basu

EMWA News 

Adriana Rocha

Freelancing

Ana Sofia Correia 

Gained in Translation

Ivana Turek

Getting Your Foot in the Door

Wendy Kingdom / Amy Whereat

Good Writing Practice

Pablo Izquierdo / Alison McIntosh 

In the Bookstores

Maria Kołtowska-Häggström

Lingua Franca and Beyond

Maddy Dyer

Publications

Lisa Chamberlain-James

Medical Communications/Writing for Patients

Payal Bhatia

Medical Devices

Evguenia Alechine

My First Medical Writing

Anuradha Alahari

News from the EMA

Tiziana von Bruchhausen

Pharmacovigilance

Clare ChangZuo Yen Lee 

Regulatory Matters

Sam Hamilton

Regulatory Public Disclosure

Louisa Ludwig-Begall / Sarah Kabani

The Crofter: Sustainable Communications

Jeff Blair / Luiza Ventura

Veterinary Writing

Editors Emeritus

Elise Langdon-Neuner

Phil Leventhal

Layout Designer

Chris Monk