This unique workshop concentrates on the special skills needed by technical people to ensure their writing has a positive impact on their readers. It provides you with the complete process for planning, writing, and editing technical documents, including assessing the needs of users, selecting document formats, and making effective use of graphics.
Who should attend?
Anyone in a technical profession who needs to write reports, including IT staff and engineers.
Benefits
You will be able to:
- Use the writing process to compose effective technical documents
- Design technical documents appropriate for specific audiences and writing situations
- Apply conventions of technical documents to original compositions
- Apply the conventions of Standard English to all written documents
Learning Objectives
- Learn techniques to tailor information to your reader
- Identify the features of and differences between various types of technical documents
- Become a more critical editor of technical documents
Course Outline
Essential Elements of Technical Writing
- Fundamentals of effective technical writing – The 5Cs
- Rhetorical awareness and user-centred design
- POWER writing process
- Battling writer’s block
Understanding your reader
- Different audiences
- Building information about your readers
- Reader analysis chart
- Audience types and level of expertise
Document design
- Documentation plans
- Building outlines
- Headings and Table of contents
- Indexing
Writing clear and concise technical documents
- Plain English
- Active and passive sentences
- Concise sentences
- Avoiding redundancy and logic gaps
- Writing better headings
Presenting information clearly
- Bullet pointing
- Presenting information clearly
- Using diagrams
- Selecting diagrams
Editing and reviewing
- Readability statistics using Microsoft Word
- Ensuring clarity and conciseness
- Technical Language
- Giving definitions
- Improving grammatical accuracy
- Editing process
Guidelines and formats for technical documents
- Purpose and structure of reports
- Sections of a report
- Titles and abstracts in reports
- Proposals versus reports
- Purpose and sections of a proposal
Action Plan
Course Information
Duration: 2 days
Price: Php 11,500.00