The document provides 21 tips for improving technical writing skills, including knowing your audience, using an outline to organize ideas, focusing on real hypotheses rather than statistics, and limiting the use of prepositional phrases. It also discusses how to write abstracts in 5 sentences on what was done, why, how, what was found, and the significance. Finally, it addresses proper referencing formats for different publication types and debunks common myths about writing such as that it is easy without effort or stems only from inspiration.