Healthcare Writing: A Practical Guide to Professional Success - Paperback

by Michael A. Arntfield (Author), James W. Johnston (Author)

Healthcare Writing: A Practical Guide to Professional Success provides a wide-ranging, much-needed contemporary interdisciplinary perspective on the modes and contexts of writing that are most pertinent to healthcare professionals today.

Back Jacket

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.

Author Biography

Michael A. Arntfield is Associate Professor of English and Writing at Western University and former Fulbright Chair, specializing in law and literature at Vanderbilt University.

James W. Johnston is Assistant Professor of English and Writing at Western University.