[Comma] To be a qualified technical writer, requires you to be trained.

[Barb_D]

Sadly, that's good enough for many.

[BobK]

The even sadder thing is that they don't know or care what makes it bad, and that they can make money from it anyway..

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[Tdol]

Take comfort in knowing that they probably aren't making much or any money from it.

[Barb_D]

Maybe they can just hire the companies that provide the ghost-written IELTS essays for them students who won't pass it any other way.

[bhaisahab]

"To be a qualified technical writer, requires you to be trained."
With or without the comma, that is a horrible sentence.

[emsr2d2]

"To be a qualified technical writer, requires you to be trained."
With or without the comma, that is a horrible sentence.

I agree entirely.

To be a qualified technical writer, you must be trained.
To be a qualified technical writer, it's important to be trained.
To be a qualified technical writer, it's vital that you are trained.

Being a qualified technical writer requires you to be trained.
A job as a qualified technical writer requires you to be trained.

With the last two, I would say that I much prefer "requires that you be trained".