ABSTRACT
Traditionally, scientists learn how to write through mentorship with a research advisor. Global collaborations in biomedical science writing have been hidden to rhetoricians and other noncollaborators because only the published document has been accessible for viewing or analyzing. With the rise of the Internet have come a more streamlined mechanism for international collaboration and a lower hurdle for transparency. Raw datasets, papers in progress, and other works may now be available for study. Often, the roles of authors and professional medical writers in this process are implicit to the participants, which makes it difficult to explain to outsiders. We present an insider view of professional collaborations in the context of collaboration in more academic contexts.
