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Program Description:
Technical writing is a high-stakes field that allows you no margin for error
- Your company’s breakthrough product is worthless if the user
manual you wrote is confusing.
- A technical report with grammar blunders can badly damage your
organization’s credibility – and your own.
- Imprecise wording in step-by-step procedures you outlined can
lead to accidents, injuries, or lawsuits.
Give your technical writing skills a major upgrade, fast
Attempting to improve your technical writing skills by trial and error is simply
too risky, which is why we’ve developed The Technical Writers’ Workshop. This
comprehensive two-day course shows you how to implement best practices,
proven approaches, and the latest techniques to produce highly effective, user friendly
technical documents. In addition, you’ll get guidelines, formats, and
structures for all types of technical projects, from abstracts to technical proposals
to specifications.
What You'll Learn:
Attend this INTENSIVE TWO-DAY COURSE
and you’ll learn how to ...
- Draft technical reports, instructions, specifications, user manuals, abstracts
and more
- Add clarity and precision to every technical document you produce from
now on
- Write common elements of technical communication, from definitions to
conditional statements
- Cut your technical writing time by up to 30 percent without sacrificing accuracy
- Use 12 questions to analyze your technical document for effectiveness
- Produce user-friendly, easily scannable technical content for the Web
- Build an outline to organize technical content with ease and create a structure
that makes data readily accessible
- Convey volumes of technical data by choosing the right charts, graphs,
and tables
- Simplify complex information using examples, illustrations, and analogies
- Present numbers and statistics in easy-to-understand ways
- Spot every error with techniques professional proofreaders use
Who Should Attend?
Anyone who writes or edits technical
documents will benefit from this seminar,
including …
- Technical writers across all
professions and industries
- Editors of technical content of
any kind
- Writers of medical or scientific
articles
- IT professionals
- Engineers
- Information architects
- Web developers
- Copywriters
- Business writers
- Documentation specialists
- Anyone who must communicate
complex information in a way others
can understand and use
Workshop Agenda:
Essential elements for technical communication success
- Fundamentals of effective technical writing: a brief
overview
- Examples of excellent technical writing and why each
one works
- Common components of technical writing, from
definitions to physical descriptions to conditional
statements
- Defining the purpose and scope of your technical
project before you begin
- Key factors you must know about your audience to
create a document that is easily understood and
usable
- Tips for cutting your writing time by at least 30
percent
Assembling and organizing data for
maximum impact and usability
- Determining content: what to include and what to
eliminate
- Organizing technical data by building an outline
- Using your outline to create sections, subsections, or
sidebars for ease in finding information
- How to handle a table of contents, index, and
glossary with your outline as your guide
- Common documentation errors and how to avoid
them
How to write clear, concise, userfriendly
technical documents
- The death of technical-ese: how to achieve a more
informal writing style
- Using present tense and active verbs to write directly
and clearly
- How many words should your average sentence
length be in technical writing?
- Cranking out a quick first draft
- Proven strategies for eliminating ambiguity and
slashing wordy phrases
- When to use jargon and technical terminology and
when to avoid it
- Writing clear and specific headlines
that draw your readers’ attention
Enhance understanding
illustrations, charts, and graphics
- How to write bullets and lists for maximum readability
- Examples of presenting statistics
and numbers effectively
- Techniques for using examples,
illustrations, analogies to simplify complex information and introduce new concepts
- Charts, Graphs, and Tables 101: best practices for using them to convey technical data
- Pointers for choosing diagrams that communicate volumes
- Structures and formats proven to improve readability
Guidelines and formats for Specific
types of technical writing
- Technical reports
- Project proposals
- Instructions
- Specifications
- User and other types of technical manuals
- Policies and procedures
- Technical journal articles and white papers
- Abstracts
- Where to find resources and templates for other technical communication projects
SPECIAL SECTION: Techniques for
technical writing success online
- A quick overview of challenges inherent in technical writing for the Web
- A three-step formula for producing accessible, usable
technical content online
- Sentence, paragraph, and documument stuctures proven
effective online
- How to summarize technical documents for easy
scanning
- Examples of technical print communication rewritten
for Web use
- Methods for displaying technical content on Web
pages so people can find information quickly
Editing, proofreading, and testing
techniques to ensure accuracy and
effectiveness
- Keep it concise! Substantially reduce your word count
to enhance readability
- Resources for grammar, punctuation, and usage
guidelines
- Rewrite, rewrite, rewrite: strategies for improving
each draft
- Editing “musts” for producing clear and precise
technical communication
- Fact-checking methods that help guarantee 100
percent accuracy
- Techniques professional proofreaders use to spot
every error
- Ask 12 questions to analyze your technical writing for
effectiveness
- Proven methods for testing technical documents on
others to ensure usability
- How to create a corporate style guide to ensure
consistency in your technical documents
Your
Guarantee of Complete Satisfaction
We stand behind our seminars
with a 100 percent , iron-clad, money-back guarantee
of satisfaction. If for any reason you&
146;re not completely satisfied
with the solid skills, the tips, tools and shortcuts, and the crucial
information you receive during this workshop, we&
146;ll refund your money
in full. Every penny. Guaranteed!
Program
Hours:
9:00 a.m.
to 4:00 p.m. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m.
Group
Discount: When 3 enroll from your organization, a 4th attends
FREE!
Lunch:
Lunch is on your own.
Continuing
Education:
Continuing education credits may be recognized by your professional
board. Contact your own board to find out what's required.
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