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Editing Techniques for Technical Writers (1 Day)
VERSION: 1.0
By taking this course, you will gain confidence as a technical editor. We use The Gregg Reference Manual as our standard and teach Plain Talk principles in this course. We encourage you to add to this technical review by taking the one-day Proofreading Techniques course for technical writers.
Key Benefits
- Learn to put your ideas in a document up front.
- Write to focus on importance and remove excess words.
- Identify 15 technical writing nightmares.
- Learn how to say "no."
- Write in plain language for any customer.
Style of Instruction
Onsite: Taught by one of our instructors in a training room, using audio/visual presentations and in-class exercises.
Online: You will download text materials and instructional movies to view. You will view the materials and complete assignments at your own pace, then submit them by direct file transfer (FTP) to your instructor. You may opt to meet your instructor at regular intervals in a live audio/video conference room to discuss your work.
Who Should Take this Course?
All public and private sector executive and administrative assistants, office staff, and others who rewrite or edit a variety of written documents.
Objective
Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to edit documents to ensure:
- Powerful writing happens all the time.
- Key technical ideas appear up front for your customer.
- Sentences provide parallel importance, focus on emphasis, and remove wordiness at the technical level.
- Clutter-free sentences by removing 15 types of technical writing nightmares.
- Acceptable tone even when having to say "no" to your scientific or engineering customer.
- “Plain Talk” clarity for technical letters, reports, and manuals.
Course Contents
- Edit for Powerful Technical Writing.
- Edit Your Technical Message “Most Important Down.”
- Edit for Varied, Effective Sentence Structure.
- Edit to Clear Technical Sentences of Clutter.
- Edit for Acceptable Tone.
Text
Participants will receive the Course Book Editing Techniques for Technical Writers, written by Dr. Sharon Bridwell, which includes fill-in-the-blank information, plus 27 technical editing activities and exercises. Come prepared to work.
Prerequisites
To profit from this course you need to:
- Write documents in understandable English.
- Slowly review the material and complete all exercises and assignments without the help of others.
- Navigate a Web site using hypertext links (online course only).
- Send and reply to e-mail messages (online course only).
What we require of you
For the onsite class, you must show up for class on time and remain until it is completed (approximately 7-8 hours each day). You will interact with other learners, complete writing exercises, and ask questions when confused.
For the online class, you will take this course at your own pace. Although we estimate you can complete this course in 14 hours, you have up to ten weeks. If you are new to self-directed learning, you may find this style of learning fresh—and a bit frightening. You learn by doing. You alone are responsible for your own learning. That means you must have the drive and discipline to see the course through.
Before you start
- Review your own schedule to make sure you have the time to give to this learning process.
- For the onsite class you have no pre-class readings or activities.
- For the online class you need to review this document, the terms and conditions, and technical requirements to make sure that you meet all of them (see links below).
- After reading this entire description, proceed to the Register page when you are ready to sign up.
Instructor
Write Words, American Writing Services provides all instructors. For more information on our instructors, click here.
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