ESSAYS FOR BIOMEDICAL COMMUNICATORS:
Volume 1 of
SELECTED AMWA WORKSHOPS
edited by Florence M. Witte and Nancy Dew Taylor, PhD
Published 2001
The American Medical Writers Association has published 2
volumes of a desktop reference for medical communicators. Like the
essays in Volume 2, the 29 essays in this collection complement the
information and skills gained from AMWA workshops. Whether you
want to refresh your memory or to learn new techniques, this volume will serve
as a helpful resource.
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Table of
Contents
Overview
- The Scope of Medical Communications
- Part One. Online Publishing
- Part Two. The Business of Continuing Medical Education
- Part Three. Medical Communications in the Pharmaceutical Industry
- Part Four. Interactive Multimedia Educational Programs
The Basics
- English Usage and Abusage
- Punctuation for Clarity and Style
- Sentence Structure and Patterns
- Effective Paragraphing
- Rhetorical Grammar
- Formal Outlining for Writers and Editors
- Statistics for Medical Writers and Editors
- Bibliographic Resources for Biomedical Communicators
Putting the Basics to Work: Biomedical Documents
- The Author-Editor Relationship
- Writing Abstracts
- Organizing the Biomedical Paper
- Microediting
- Macroeditng
- The Editor as Production Manager
- Journal Submissions Other Than Scientific Papers
Putting the Basics to Work: Pharmaceutical Documents
- Developing Research Materials Into Journal
Articles
- An Introduction to Investigational New Drug Applications
- Electronic Regulatory Submissions
Putting the Basics to Work: Presentation Skills
- Making Effective Slides
- Making Effective Presentations
- Presenting With Impact
Putting the Basics to Work: Freelance Assignments
- Launching a Freelance Writing Career: Facing Fantasy and Fact
- Time for the Interview. Let's Get Going!
- Writing and Producing Patient Education Materials
- Writing About Health and Medicine for Magazines
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