Tutorial Technical Writing

What is objectivity? How to keep technical writing objective? How to maintain the objectivity? These are some of the questions, we will find answers to. Objectivity in writing means that the author or writer explains or discusses on a topic without subjectivity. It is an unbiased mental attitude.

Subjectivity in writing refers to the text that contains writer’s personal opinion, use of I, We, and their feelings. Therefore, it can be said that objectivity is to keep subjectivity away from the writing.

Example of objectivity is “SnagIt is an effective and useful screen capturing tool”. If this sentence was to be written in a subjective format, it would be something like this; “I find SnagIt a very useful tool for screen captu[...] Read more

Medical writing can be divided into 3 broad categories: regulatory, promotional, and educational. Regulatory writing is a highly scientific niche that involves creating documents according to very specific templates and guidelines that report the results of clinical trials and are ultimately submitted to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Mid- and large-size pharmaceutical companies hire medical writers with regulatory experience as contract or full-time employees to work on site. Smaller pharmaceutical and biotech companies often go through staffing agencies and recruiters to hire regulatory writers on a contract basis.

What skills do you need to excel as a medical writer in the regulatory niche? First and foremost, regulatory writers must be ad[...] Read more

There are different ways of making money online depending on your specific skills set. One of the ones that I have found to be impressive is technical writing. This is an area that might require some specialist skills but there is no doubt that many people can make a success career out of it. As the name implies, technical writing goes beyond the run of the mill grammatical constructions that are routinely pasted on the internet. It requires the writer to have some skills that will enable them to deal with industry specific issues as well as the different translation problems for laymen.

Before you embark on some sort of career in technical writing you will need to establish the audience that you are dealing with. The commercial basis of your skills is e[...] Read more