Twenty-Eighth Tweet on Competence

1-minute YouTube video helps us identify the context and readers for documents we write and edit  #cmwesm #medwriters

Twenty-Seventh Tweet on Competence

Jonathan Koffel from Univ of Minnesota helps us understand basic study designs  #cmwesm #medwriters

Twenty-Sixth Tweet on Competence

We go back to Clinical Chemistry's Tom Annesley for options to solve problems during peer review   #cmwesm #medwriters

Twenty-Fifth Tweet on Competence

The American Medical Writers Association helps us to identify relevant ethical guidelines  #cmwesm #medwriters

Twenty-Fourth Tweet on Competence

Here's a Facebook page dedicated to getting the facts straight #cmwesm #medwriters

Twenty-Third Tweet on Competence

A guide from the Univ of California at Berkeley on presenting logical scientific arguments #cmwesm #medwriters

Twenty-Second Tweet on Competence

Intro to key message development by the Public Relations Society of America

Twenty-First Tweet on Competence

Guidance from Cuesta College in California on synthesizing information  #cmwesm #medwriters

Twentieth Tweet on Competence

YouTube video clip from Academic Medicine on substantive editing  #cmwesm #medwriters

Nineteenth Tweet on Competence

The Singapore Medical Journal tells us how to deal with rejection  #cmwesm #medwriters

Eighteenth Tweet on Competence

Tom Annesley, an award-winning clinical chemist from U Mich, tells us how to respond to reviewers  #cmwesm #medwriters

Seventeenth Tweet on Competence

Tips from the University of South Florida's Writing Commons on determining your document's purpose  #cmwesm #medwriters

Sixteenth Tweet on Competence

A guide from About.com on crafting smooth transitions between paragraphs  #cmwesm #medwriters

July 31 Deadline to Submit Questions for Chat

The Board of Editors in the Life Sciences (BELS) is planning its first-ever tweet chat for early August. The tweet chat will last one hour and the topic will be competence in medical writing, editing, and social media.

I will serve as the moderator for our first chat, and will seek volunteers to host any future chats.

If you are interested in this topic, now is the time to suggest questions for discussion during our chat. One question has already been put forward by an active BELS member from Long Island, New York:

1) HOW CAN EDITORS HELP ASSURE COMPETENCE IN MEDICAL WRITING?

Another question occurred to me in the course of preparing the tweet series:

2) WHY IS 'MAINTAIN CONFIDENTIALITY' RANKED SO HIGH (3RD OUT OF 68) AMONG THE ESSENTIAL COMPETENCIES OF A MEDICAL WRITER?

We need at least 3 more questions for a good tweet chat. Here is your opportunity to have your concerns addressed. Deadline for submission is Wednesday, July 31. If we receive more than 5 suggestions total, they may need to be edited, or condensed, for the sake of time.

Or we might need to schedule another tweet chat.

Please use the comments feature of my Delaware Valley Medical Writer blog to make suggestions.

THANK YOU!

Fifteenth Tweet on Competence

Let's go back to Harvard College for help with evaluating  information we have collected.   #cmwesm #medwriters

Fourteenth Tweet on Competence

Here's a tutorial on medical terminology from the U.S. National Library of Medicine  #cmwesm #medwriters

Thirteenth Tweet on Competence

Intro to standard formats and guidelines from the International Conference on Harmonization  #cmwesm #medwriters

Twelfth Tweet on Competence

Identify inconsistencies in data  #cmwesm #medwriters

Eleventh Tweet on Competence

Guidance on grammar, spelling and punctuation from AMA style manual  #cmwesm #medwriters

Tenth Tweet on Competence

Tom Lang, AMWA Swanberg award winner, tells how to communicate statistical content appropriately #cmwesm #medwriters