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Effective Technical Writing & Editing Training Course

Expert advice on how to write and edit scientific and medical texts, technical documents and those documents needed for regulatory submission.

28 June 2024
+ 1 October 2024 »
from £549

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Format: Live online
CPD: 6 hours for your records
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Course overview

Effective technical writing and editing is a vital skill in ensuring a clear and compliant message. This interactive course will provide an intensive, practical guide to best practice to follow in achieving excellence in scientific, medical and technical documentation.

Our expert trainer will offer invaluable tools and techniques to help you write with confidence, clarity and a logical structure to successfully convey information to your reader.

With a combination of presentations, hands-on exercises and text review sessions, the programme will enable you to take your writing and editing skills to the highest level to the ultimate benefit of your business.

By attending this event, you will:

Master the skills required for clarity and accuracy in technical writing
Refine your techniques in editing and presenting technical documents
Learn how best to improve readability – be kind to your reader
Gain insights into the use of illustrative material such as tables, graphs and flow charts

This course is part of our Medical Writing Training Courses series that aims to equip delegates with the tools and techniques needed to thrive within an ever-evolving industry.

Who should attend?

This event has been designed for all those writing or editing scientific and medical texts, as well as technical documents, including those who prepare documents for regulatory submissions.

The course will be relevant for anyone preparing texts about pharmaceutical, medical device and veterinary products and is suitable for native and non-native English speakers.

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The Effective Technical Writing & Editing course will cover:

Overview of writing and editing – substantive and technical aspects

Considering logic, text flow and wordiness, as well as accuracy
Looking at details such as language editing, reference style, abbreviations and acronyms
Preparing a clear message for the intended reader

Punctuation specifics

Why punctuate?
Punctuation marks including:
- Paired punctuation marks
- Serial commas
- Bulleted lists
- Apostrophes

Further improving readability – being kind to your reader

Rewriting texts for maximum effectiveness
Improving tables, graphs and flow charts

Final checks including proofreading

Why this is more than just a spell check
The practicalities

Writing tips and tools

Software
Checklists
Style guides
Systematic checks

Working with co-authors and editors, reviewers and other team members

Upfront decisions
Giving feedback effectively

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Barbara Grossman
Hawkeye Medical Limited

Barbara Grossman has a passion for proofreading, quality control, and education. She is a biochemist by training and a medical writer, editor and teacher by profession, with 20+ years’ experience in the pharmaceutical industry. Before starting her own medical writing and consultancy business (Hawkeye Medical Limited), she built up and managed the medical writing group at Covance, the contract research organisation, working in a wide range of therapeutic areas. She has given professional development training at educational institutions and organisations such as the DIA (Drug Information Association – Europe and USA), EMWA (European Medical Writers Association) and NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence), and has led many company-internal training courses.

Barbara is an honorary member of EMWA, was Treasurer 1998–2005, has been an EMWA workshop leader since 2001, served on EMWA’s Education Committee 2010–2018, was the Education Officer for 2 years until 2016, and was EMWA's President for 1 year until May 2020. In addition, she is an Associate Editor of Medical Writing, EMWA’s journal.

More details

NEW higher discounts for multiple bookings - bring your colleagues to make your training budget go further:

30% off the 2nd delegate*
40% off the 3rd delegate*
50% off the 4th delegate*

Please contact us for pricing if you are interested in booking 5 or more delegates

28 June 2024

Live online

09:00-17:30 UK (London) (UTC+01)
10:00-18:30 Paris (UTC+02)
04:00-12:30 New York (UTC-04)
Course code 13702

GBP 549 649
EUR 789 929
USD 893 1,049

Until 24 May

1 day live online training
Browser-based, no download usually required
See presenters and interact with fellow attendees
Download documentation and certification of completion
Fair transfer and cancellation policy

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1 October 2024

Live online

09:00-17:30 UK (London) (UTC+01)
10:00-18:30 Paris (UTC+02)
04:00-12:30 New York (UTC-04)
Course code 13921

GBP 549 649
EUR 789 929
USD 893 1,049

Until 27 Aug

1 day live online training
Browser-based, no download usually required
See presenters and interact with fellow attendees
Download documentation and certification of completion
Fair transfer and cancellation policy

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Not ready to book yet?

for 7 days, no obligation

* Early booking discounts may not be combined with other discounts or offers. As such, the discounts for 2nd/3rd/4th delegates are based on the full price; and apply only when booking multiple delegates on the same date.