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How to Train Yourself to be a Good Technical Writer

Writing skill is a core competency for any professional working in the FDA-regulated industry. There are very few resources available that highlight the nuances of technical writing for the regulatory and other medical product professionals. Technical writers toil for years to hone their writing skills. For a documentation-centric industry, good quality documents form the core of compliance. There are several ways authors of technical documents can train themselves without disrupting their schedules. There are several inexpensive tools to train, practice your skills, and develop your writing style. Writing is also one of the most transferrable skills that can be easily used for diverse writing jobs.
Why should you attend:
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This webinar, presented by a leading technical writer with thousands of well-received documents, will discuss self-training and evaluation skills for professionals in the FDA-regulated industry. The core competencies developed using these tips can be applied to other industries as well. The presenter will share his tips for identifying your writing styles, industry standards for different kinds of documents, and how to find free or inexpensive resources to polish ones skills. The seminar will also discuss numerous opportunities from your daily life that can be used to create writing samples, present your documents to peers, and get critical evaluation for further improvement. Techniques for group-writing, contract writing, ghost writing, and several other practices common in the regulated industry will be discussed. This one-of-a-kind seminar is designed to provide a well-rounded training to all future and current technical and even non-technical writers, who want to develop and improve their writing skills.
Areas Covered in the Session:
  • Basic rules and skills required for technical writers
  • Different categories for documents and the desired skills for each
  • Common opportunities that are often overlooked or under-estimated by aspiring writers
  • FDA expectations for quality of written text in submitted documents
  • Balancing writing for fun and as a job
  • Everyone can write philosophy of training new writers
  • Best practices for setting expectations from writers
  • Dos and don’ts for self-evaluation, critiquing other writers, corrections and improvements
  • Group-writing, contract writing, ghost writing, and several other practices
  • Native and non-native writers in English and other languages
Who will benefit:
  • Medical writers and anyone who writes or want to write
  • Sponsors
  • Regulatory affairs personnel
  • Quality assurance personnel
  • Information technology personnel
  • Vice presidents, Directors and Managers
  • People interested in investing in the FDA-regulated industry
Date: November 26, 2018
​Duration: ​60 Minutes
​Time: 12 PM EST

Speaker
Mukesh Kumar, PhD, RAC, Brij Strategic Consultations, USA
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For additional information on the workshop agenda and logistics, please call 410-501-5777 or email: info@fdamap.com