Paper Title
Characteristics of Medical Writing in English for Specific Purposes
Abstract
It is a widely shared opinion that the English language nowadays has taken a special place in the communication
among the professionals of different countries. It is also a well known fact that “Writing for Professional Purposes” as part of
the language learning process is a complex task and that among the four skills to be acquired in a foreign language, it is the
most difficult one to learn and master, since writing in a second language requires both syntactic and semantic knowledge of
the second language from the writer. For writing is considered to be closely related to the social and cultural aspects, the
writer has to consider too many things like the style, the grammatical structure, the format and the lexical resource. The
article with the title “Characteristics of Medical Writing in English for Specific Purposes” is closely related to the study of
English Medical Writing and its teaching in professional linguistic contexts. It describes some key features of medical
writing as part of Writing for Specific Purposes. It will also discuss how medical writing was considered at its beginnings,
how it evolved and how it was taught through years. Like in all types of professional writing, medical writing is
characterized from the use of professional terminology, medical jargon and the use of unfamiliar words in twisting
grammatical sentence structure
Keywords - Medical Writing, ESP, Writing for Professional Purposes, Linguistic contexts, Second Language