Advanced Technical Writing

Course ID: 417                         Course Length: 3 day(s)

Overview:

This course is for students who already possess good writing skills but have difficulty writing in-depth technical papers, articles, reports, abstracts, and manuals. Students learn how to decipher and simplify technical information; use various techniques to organize, write, and revise specific technical documents and reports; conduct a reader analysis; and take into consideration editorial and productions costs before the final rewrite.
 

Objectives:
At the end of the workshop participants should be able to:

• Eliminate writing mistakes
• Create the correct graphics to emphasize major points
  and simplify reading and understanding
• Write a technical report that contains all eight sections
  of a long formal report
• Write a technical report that contains all six sections of
  a short report
• Write an informal technical document
• Use the correct hierarchy of outlining
• Write seven different types of technical reports
• Use specific and concrete terms rather than vague
  generalities

Topics:

• Elements of technical writing
• Rules of punctuation, grammar, abbreviation, and
  capitalization
• Principles of technical communication
• Words and phrases commonly misused in technical
  writing
• Tasks of the technical writer
• Proposals and specifications
• Technical articles, papers, abstracts, and reports
• How to do a reader analysis
• Purpose and scope of a report
• Topic outlining
• Parts of a report
• Layout, design, and graphics
• Technical letters and memos
• Technical e-mail
• Manuals and documentation
• A guide to software for technical writers

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