Writing technical documents for the global pharmaceutical industry

Analyzing Safety Communication in Industrial Contexts

“…SC has been examined from the perspective of technical writing in different contexts such as aerospace (Dombrowski, 2006), healthcare (Batova, 2010;Bonk, 1998;DeTora & Klein, 2020;Karreman et al, 2014), nuclear power plants (Dombrowski, 2011;Hirst, 2016Hirst, , 2020, construction sites (Aphorn et al, 2003;Evia & Patriarca, 2012), mining (Sauer, 1996(Sauer, , 2011Tachino & Paul, 2005), and product design (Helyar, 1992;Kemnitz, 1991;Smith, 1990). Only a few studies examine SC in the manufacturing industry (Cornelissen et al, 2014(Cornelissen et al, , 2017.…”

Pharmaceutical information: A 30‐year perspective on the literature

“…The pharmaceutical companies' need to process and prepare very extensive sets of information for regulatory approvals has led to innovation in a number of areas such as records management (Pease, 1995), content management (Agoratus, 1999; Michalak, Matthews, Leslie, Kenkins, Mehta, & Asbjorn, 1996) (including a move to fully digital regulatory submission [Attridge, 2005]), and technical writing (Bonk, 1998).…”

Tracking Rapid HIV Testing Through the Cultural Circuit

“…Indeed, Bell, Walch, and Katz (2000) had a similar focus in their rhetorical analysis of a clinical protocol-the technical document that describes the clinical testing required in the drug development and approval process. Bonk (1998) focused specifically on the audience analysis phase of writing technical pharmaceutical documents such as package inserts and research studies. To be sure, technical communication played a vital role in getting OraQuick approved and is an important part of the product itself.…”

“…3. Bonk (1998) shared this pragmatic goal of rhetorically effective writing, although he does nod to considering the "social benefit or serious harm" that pharmaceutical documents can enable.…”