Clear and concise writing is a must for any technical writer. In this practical hands-on course, you gain the skills to assess the needs of your users and create documents that explain technical information. You learn the mechanics of good technical writing, along with techniques for document design and page layout.
Benefits of the Technical Writing Course
- Write clear, effective technical documents, including user manuals and technical reports;
- Assess your target audience and develop documents to meet their needs;
Choose the appropriate writing style to communicate to specialized audiences; - Build effective sentences, paragraphs and sections that explain information clearly;
- Employ diagrams, tables, charts and other graphical tools effectively;
- Create informative and interesting content that your readers will understand and use.
Who Should Attend
Employees who need to effectively communicate technical information or instructions to others, or those entering the field of technical writing who need to create clear and concise manuals or papers.
Hands-on Training
During this course, you perform extensive hands-on exercises, including:
- Analysing your audience to meet their needs;
- Applying a style guide to achieve consistency;
Editing to remove unnecessary verbiage; - Crafting a powerful tutorial;
- Developing a document using specific writing styles;
- Choosing the right words and building strong sentences;
- Organising around the reader’s requirements;
- Guiding research through explicit and tacit knowledge;
- Improving readability.
Duration
We usually run these courses as one or two-day programmes.
Centre for Financial Communication GmbH – we help organisations assess their writing skills and discover the hidden potential a structured and effective written communication can offer.