"The tips and tricks given
in the course, as well as the
four-phase approach,
will allow me
to save time in my day-to-day work."
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- Marie Séguin,
- Social Development Canada
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WRITING TECHNICAL
INFORMATION EFFECTIVELY
This two-day course is designed for technical specialists who must document their
designs for products and services, but who may not consider themselves technical writers
first and foremost. The course provides those writing skills required for clear, coherent,
and useful technical documents. The course can be tailored to meet the specialized needs
of in-house groups.
Public sessions of this course have been scheduled in both Ottawa and Toronto.
A variation on this course, Writing Effective Technical Marketing Materials, is also available. |
Who Should Attend |
Anyone producing documents in a technical environment.
Software and hardware developers.
Technical and scientific specialists who routinely document their designs, concepts,
or project status in reports.
Systems analysts who document databases, software applications, or hardware for
end users. |
Course Topics |
In this two-day workshop, you will learn to
- use an efficient writing process: planning, design, drafting, revision
- recognize and apply three classes of technical documentation to your own
work
- maximize the computer as tool for planning and organizing your ideas
- use quality-control methods to meet your reader's needs and measure your
document's effectiveness
- provide the right level of technical detail
- apply techniques for writing technical descriptions and procedures
- guarantee that information in the document is easy and fast to locate
- write in a style appropriate to technical information
- identify and correct the grammar errors that most often arise in technical writing
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