AMWA 2022: Plain Language, Lean Authoring, and Warm Networking at a Conference Dedicated to Medical Writing The American Medical Writers Conference for 2022 wrapped up less than a week...
In 2014, the EU approved a regulation for the mandatory provision of plain language summaries of all clinical trials with ties to the EU. Five years later, the regulation...
We can all do our part to keep each other safe, to promote respect, to care for our planet. In this moment of painful events–that bear witness to how...
In a recent series of edits and translations, I found myself repeatedly fixing “isotopic breaks” that AI or inexperienced writers and translators had missed. An isotopy is a set...
In October 2019, the World Economic Forum, the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation worked on a pandemic simulation (a mock-up) called...
Covid-19 is causing the most disruptive effect on lifestyle seen in the 21st century. The news on global climate change didn’t prompt people to change habits. The international economic...
The virus is spreading as a disease (so far over 90,000 people infected and over 3,000 dead) but is also spreading a lot of confusion. As a pathogen (a...
Health Literacy has been understood as literacy applied to health information. But we now know that communication is a dialogue, so even at the federal level, folks understand the...
I was asked this question by a group of non-fiction writers. The bottom line: all content developers, even marketers and advertisers, can learn a huge deal from plain language...
How do we promote successful written communication? “Plain language is clear language. It is simple and direct but not simplistic or patronizing.” Nick Wright Writing is a decision-making process...
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