Are you having a hard time improving your technical writing skills? Do you want to deepen your knowledge in technical writing for your profession? Then this course may just be the one you are looking for! This course will give you all the knowledge you need to further develop your skills in technical writing such as the suitable situations where it can be applied, how you can write based on your audience’s preferability, how you can write effectively with others, and more.
How do you write technical manuals, scientific documents, texts and articles or anything else of a scientific or technical nature? This course will show you how. You will develop skills to write technical information for a variety of different purposes. This course is a professional development course for anyone working in a technical field, from consultants and teachers to scientists and engineers.
100 hr online course
Study in your own time and at your own pace.
Learn the skills required in technical writing.
Learn to write articles, technical reports and much more.
Learn from industry experts – our tutors!
Course Aims:
Identify a broad range of situations where technical writing is used and where you might gainfully apply those skills;
Present technical documentation for a variety of situations;
Determine how to write appropriately for a defined audience;
Develop formats for different documents that follow a logical appropriate structure;
Explain how to effectively collaborate with one or more people in the production of a technical writing assignment;
Write items of technical writing that are appropriate for publication in different types of periodicals including: popular magazines, industry magazines, scientific journals, newspapers and e-zines;
Write easy to follow, technically accurate instructions for a variety of processes, using a variety of equipment;
Write a formal proposal for a project;
Write in an effective and appropriate style of report, during, or on conclusion of a project.
Lesson Structure
There are 9 lessons in this course:
Scope and Nature of Technical Writing
Nature and Scope
Quality of Information
Nature of Language
Structure
Characteristics of Technical Writing
Presentation of Technical Writing
Presentation
Basic Parts of a Document (Written text, Images, White space)
Headings
Types of Images (Tables, Charts, Graphs, Photos, Drawings)
Captions and Labels
Main Elements (Front Matter, Body, end matter)
Creating an Index
Elements of Different types of Technical Documents (References, Texts, Journals, Reports, etc)
Referencing
Matching Style and Content to the Audience
Writing for an Audience
Writing Well
Writing Guidelines (Jargon, Gender neutral writing, Using simple sentences, passive or active language, first, second or third person, etc)
Spelling, Grammar
Editing, Proof reading
Planning: Developing a Logical Structure or Format
Creating a Technical Document
Research the Document; gather information
Plan; decide on the format
Write; create an outline and then write the first draft
Verify; check the accuracy of what you have written
Are you having a hard time improving your technical writing skills? Do you want to deepen your knowledge in technical writing for your profession? Then this course may just be the one you are looking for! This course will give you all the knowledge you need to further develop your skills in technical writing such as the suitable situations where it can be applied, how you can write based on your audience’s preferability, how you can write effectively with others, and more.
How do you write technical manuals, scientific documents, texts and articles or anything else of a scientific or technical nature? This course will show you how. You will develop skills to write technical information for a variety of different purposes. This course is a professional development course for anyone working in a technical field, from consultants and teachers to scientists and engineers.
100 hr online course
Study in your own time and at your own pace.
Learn the skills required in technical writing.
Learn to write articles, technical reports and much more.
Learn from industry experts – our tutors!
Course Aims:
Identify a broad range of situations where technical writing is used and where you might gainfully apply those skills;
Present technical documentation for a variety of situations;
Determine how to write appropriately for a defined audience;
Develop formats for different documents that follow a logical appropriate structure;
Explain how to effectively collaborate with one or more people in the production of a technical writing assignment;
Write items of technical writing that are appropriate for publication in different types of periodicals including: popular magazines, industry magazines, scientific journals, newspapers and e-zines;
Write easy to follow, technically accurate instructions for a variety of processes, using a variety of equipment;
Write a formal proposal for a project;
Write in an effective and appropriate style of report, during, or on conclusion of a project.
Lesson Structure
There are 9 lessons in this course:
Scope and Nature of Technical Writing
Nature and Scope
Quality of Information
Nature of Language
Structure
Characteristics of Technical Writing
Presentation of Technical Writing
Presentation
Basic Parts of a Document (Written text, Images, White space)
Headings
Types of Images (Tables, Charts, Graphs, Photos, Drawings)
Captions and Labels
Main Elements (Front Matter, Body, end matter)
Creating an Index
Elements of Different types of Technical Documents (References, Texts, Journals, Reports, etc)
Referencing
Matching Style and Content to the Audience
Writing for an Audience
Writing Well
Writing Guidelines (Jargon, Gender neutral writing, Using simple sentences, passive or active language, first, second or third person, etc)
Spelling, Grammar
Editing, Proof reading
Planning: Developing a Logical Structure or Format
Creating a Technical Document
Research the Document; gather information
Plan; decide on the format
Write; create an outline and then write the first draft
Verify; check the accuracy of what you have written
