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Technical Writing

( Duration: 4 Days )

The Technical Writing training course provides the skills to assess the needs of user and create documents that explain technical information. You will learn the mechanics of good technical writing, along with techniques for document design and page layout.

Upon completion of Technical Writing workshop, delegates will learn to:

  • Distinguish Among the Elements of Technical Documents
  • Create a Full Range of Technical Documents with a Solid Structure
  • Use Templates to Jumpstart the Writing Process
  • Use Techniques for Overcoming Writer’s Block
  • Evaluate Technical Data Based on the Writer’s Purpose and the Reader’s Concerns
  • Prepare Detailed Messages with a Style for Technical and Nontechnical Writers
  • Structure the Format to Enhance Presentation and Ideas
  • Use Linking Words and Phrases in Sentences and Paragraphs
  • Edit Language for Precision, Clarity, and Conciseness
  • Choose Language for Appropriateness
  • Summarize Complex Issues with Authority

COURSE AGENDA

1

Introduction to Technical Writing

  • Benefits of effectively communicating technical information
  • Dealing with common writing problems
2

Getting ready to write

  • Eliminating misconceptions that stall technical writing
  • Driving your document design with scenarios
  • Focusing on a document's purposes
3

Assessing your audience

  • Identifying your purpose and the reader's purpose
  • What the audience brings to the table
4

Covering the knowledge domain

  • Exposing tacit knowledge
  • Knowing when you've "covered it all"
  • Organizing using the audience's scenarios
5

Writing technically

  • Discriminating between the three levels of information
  • Determining information needs with the OODA loop
6

Architecting sentences that communicate

  • Creating sentences with clarity
  • Building clarity through sentence focus
  • Solving common grammar problems in technical writing
7

Managing style in technical writing

  • Evaluating readability using the Given/New technique
  • Ensuring consistency with a style guide
  • Eliminating reader recycling
8

Working with words

  • Selecting the right words
  • Editing for concision
9

Editing for quality

  • Knowing when and what to edit
  • The editing triage
  • Editing throughout the document process
  • Two strategies for rewriting
10

Leveraging and formatting tables and lists

  • Organizing data to support readers' scenarios
  • Determining when to use a list
  • Exploiting tables for highly structured data
11

Maintaining document structure

  • Building cohesive documents with Given/New
  • Applying useful headings to support skimming
12

Methods of development

  • Problems-methods-results
  • Effect and cause
  • Order of importance
13

Audience-driven document design

  • Relating document structure to the audience
  • Recognizing the varieties of user manuals
  • Developing reference manuals and white papers
14

Determining the document types

  • Post-positive vs. pragmatic documents
  • Implementing the right document format
15

Building documents

  • Tutorials and standard operating procedures
  • Designing two styles of tutorials
  • Structuring sentences and sections
  • Handling introductions and conclusions
16

Prototyping the document

  • Testing for success
  • Levels of prototypes
17

Designing the appearance of your page

  • The technical document reading process
  • Fonts
  • White space
  • Alignment
18

Conveying information with graphics

  • Chunking the document
  • Employing photos, drawings and graphs
  • Focusing graphics

Encarta Labs Advantage

  • One Stop Corporate Training Solution Providers for over 6,000 various courses on a variety of subjects
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  • Get jumpstarted from newbie to production ready in a matter of few days
  • Trained more than 50,000 Corporate executives across the Globe
  • All our trainings are conducted in workshop mode with more focus on hands-on sessions

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