Healthcare Writing: A Practical Guide to Professional Success

Notable for its use of real document examples drawn from actual healthcare settings, in addition to its central section’s extended focus on narrative medicine and new media writing, Healthcare Writing: A Practical Guide to Professional Success provides a wide-ranging, much-needed contemporary perspective on the modes and contexts of writing most pertinent to today’s healthcare professionals. Aimed at students enrolled in university- or college-level healthcare programs, healthcare communication specialists, as well as at current clinical practitioners seeking a portable reference and guide, this book combines a detailed discussion of approaches to key healthcare document types—both professional and academic—with a thorough but accessible overview of essential points of grammar, punctuation, and style.

Key Features

• - Examples drawn from actual practitioner documents
  - Interdisciplinary approach to healthcare writing instruction throughout
  - Extensive sets of self-check exercises on grammar, punctuation, and style
  - Multiple examples of actual undergraduate student writing, annotated and discussed
  - Quick reference chart for addressing the most common problems student writers have with APA citation
  - Modular organization in which each of the three main multi-chapter sections can be used entirely on its own or in conjunction with one or both of the other two