6-Hour Virtual Seminar

6-Hour Virtual Seminar on Effective Technical Writing in the Life Sciences

Product Id : 10972
Casper Uldriks

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US$495.00 Recorded
US$845.00 Corporate Recorded
Refund Policy

Recorded: Access recorded version, only for one participant unlimited viewing for 6 months ( Access information will be emailed 24 hours after the completion of live webinar)

Corporate Recorded: Access recorded version, Any number of participants unlimited viewing for 6 months ( Access information will be emailed 24 hours after the completion of live webinar)

Overview

This seminar will begin with a general discussion of technical writing and its role within the life sciences. Technical writers produce a variety of technical documents that are required to manage and direct regulated operations and to meet regulatory requirements.  We will spend some time in this seminar discussing those document types, their importance, and the consequences of the messages are unclear or misunderstood.

After setting the stage for this content, we delve into the writing process beginning with the audience and how the audience must be analyzed to determine the level of writing that must be employed to complete the document.

Gathering the information to be included in the technical document requires collaboration between the writer and the various subject matter experts that possess the knowledge to be harvested.  How that information is gathered can be an effective efficient process or an ineffective time-consuming endeavor all dependent upon the techniques employed to execute the activity.  We will address the most effective techniques for extracting information from SMEs as well as those techniques that work best when observing procedures and activities to be documented.

  • Anyone in the life sciences that is tasked with writing technical material to include standard operating procedures and work instructions
  • Associates
  • Supervisors
  • Managers
  • Associate Directors
  • Directors

Why you should attend

Even with the advent of technology, we still communicate with the written word.  Technical writing is about conveying information quickly, accurately, clearly, and succinctly.  How we communicate, how we are understood, and how the message is received directly depends upon our skills as technical writers.  In the life sciences, this skill is exceedingly important.  

In the life sciences, the stakes are high in terms of the writing’s ability to enable 100% accurate understanding of the content and where applicable, performance of the task or procedure documented.  In the life sciences, that could mean the difference between life or death, safety or injury, loss or recovery, contamination or purity, success or failure. 

Unfortunately, technical writing is not a skill that is given much emphasis in college curriculums if any.  Technical writing is a skill, life sciences workers are assumed to have and are expected to demonstrate at a level of skill usually beyond the capability of most.  Unfortunately, most readers of technical writing are in the “same boat.”  They “don’t know a good one when they see one.”   At the end of the day, in most cases, you have mediocre writing at best that may or may not convey the message intended.

This virtual seminar will walk you through the technical writing process from start to finish.  Each critical aspect of writing technical documents for the life sciences will be addressed with the goal of helping you become better technical writers.  The tips and skills presented can be applied immediately and will be evident in the very first document that you write after this virtual seminar.

Who Will Benefit

  • Anyone in the life sciences that is tasked with writing technical material to include standard operating procedures and work instructions
  • Associates
  • Supervisors
  • Managers
  • Associate Directors
  • Directors

Agenda

  • What is technical writing, and what role does technical writing play in the life sciences?
  • Technical writers in the life sciences - what do they write - types of medium
  • Analyzing the audience
  • Analyzing the information - working with Subject Matter Experts
  • Planning the content
  • Formats, consistency and styles
  • Non-native audience considerations
  • Grammar, spelling, punctuation, numbers and symbols
  • Simplify your writing
  • Ensuring accuracy

Speaker Profile


Casper (Cap) Uldriks, through his firm “Encore Insight LLC,” brings over 32 years of experience from the FDA. He specialized in the FDA’s medical device program as a field investigator, served as a senior manager in the Office of Compliance and an Associate Center Director for the Center for Devices and Radiological Health. He developed enforcement actions and participated in the implementation of new statutory requirements. His comments are candid, straightforward and of practical value. He understands how FDA thinks, how it operates and where it is headed. Based on his exceptionally broad experience and knowledge, he can synthesize FDA’s domestic and international operational programs, institutional policy and thicket of legal variables into a coherent picture. Professional credentials: JD – Suffolk University, licensed in Massachusetts and the District of Columbia; M.Div in psychology – Boston University with internship through Harvard University.