Medical Writing, Revising and Editing

The globalization of science makes medical writing, editing, and revision a rapidly growing field of linguistic study and practice. Medical science texts are written according to uniform, general guidelines and medical genres have become highly conventionalized in terms of structure and linguistic form. Medical editing often takes the form of peer review and mainly addresses issues of contents and overall validity. Medical revision incorporates the checking of the macrostructure and microstructure of the text, its language and style, and its suitability for the target reader or client.