Approaching 26 Years as a TWer!

I have worked as a technical writer for 25 years, 11 months, 3 weeks, 5 days (9492 days) and will reach 26 years next week on Wednesday, February 10, 2021, which also happens to be the day when I meet with my manager about my 2020 Performance Review. Before going on about the topic at hand, I just want to state, for the record, that I do not reduce the amount of time I have worked as a technical writer by the sum of the two periods during which I was in a job search situation. The sum of days in those two periods is 78 days - yes, I looked in my private journals to determine that the first period was 37 days and the second period was 41 days. Thus, in a technical frame of mind, my 26-year anniversary of being a technical writer would not be next week, but rather on the unimportant date of Thursday, April 29, 2021. I don't have any special story about any April 29th, so I am going to retain February 10 as my anniversary date because it is the day on which I interviewed at NDP and was hired by NDP. For more information, read other posts with the NDP label. Anyways, the text in red below would be interesting, the text in bold/italic would be difficult to teach in a 3-hour class. I'm not signing up for the class.

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Technical Writing for the Pharmaceutical, Medical Device and Biotech Industries

This technical writing training program will offer attendees an understanding of how the reporting process supports products in research, development, and in the marketplace. This virtual session will highlight the mandates for documentation set forth by the regulators, such as the FDA, the ISO, and other governing bodies. The program will train attendees on effectively reviewing and revising documents and assessing your audience, in effect producing effective written correspondence. This course will address how to write effective correspondence and reports in support of your company's activities. Attendees will learn how to organize and deliver information for the intended audience. They will also learn how to write clear and readable documents, and how to revise and refine your own and others' writing. The course will provide an overview of sound grammatical conventions, address problematic areas of the English language, and afford opportunities to address specific language issues. COURSE OBJECTIVE: Upon completing this course participants should:

1. Understand the mandates for documentation set forth by the regulators, such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), and other governing bodies
2. Know how the reporting process supports products in research, development, and the marketplace
3. Understand how documents work in tandem from initial correspondence about a project to an approved protocol, amendments, and final study report
4. Know how to produce effective written correspondence
5. Understand how to assess and write to the audience
6. Know how to organize and deliver information based on the message
7. Understand how to structure reports
8. Understand the innate structures of English grammar
9. Know how to create grammatically sound passages
10. Understand how the active and passive voices work and how to choose the most appropriate one for the type of writing you are doing
11. Have a working knowledge of punctuation marks and their role in making documents readable
12. Know how to review and revise documents
13. Understand your own writing patterns and know the answers to your questions about the English language
14. Have increased confidence in writing and revising documents

Topic: 3-hr Virtual Seminar: Technical Writing for the Pharmaceutical, Medical Device and Biotech Industries
Date: 10th - February - 2021, Wednesday
Time: 1 PM EST
Duration: 3 Hours
Location: Live, interactive training on your computer - Includes proprietary tools and helpful documentation!
Instructor Profile Joy L. McElroy: With 10 years of experience as a consultant, and over 20 years total experience in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, Joy L. McElroy specializes in Quality Assurance, Process and Cleaning Validation, and Equipment Qualification. In 2013 Joy started her own company, Maynard Consulting Company, which provides top engineers, auditors, and validation specialists to pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device clients across the United States, Canada, and the world