Our clients believe technical writing is a valuable skill that increases productivity, accuracy, and clarity within their organization and for their customers.
Course Overview
During the technical writing workshop, participants increase their awareness of the fundamental techniques for technical writing and business writing. Participants bring their own work-related documents and apply what they are learning to their documents. The facilitator provides guidance and feedback to the participants as they practice their new knowledge and skills. Participants also practice a set of Microsoft Word functions that increase writing effectiveness and decrease formatting problems.
Prior to the course, participants complete a grammar self-assessment. The course facilitator uses the results for the group as a whole to focus instruction on particular grammar topics.
After two days of instruction, the facilitator reviews and provides one-on-one feedback to the participants about their outlines and their document revisions.
Length
The technical writing course is a two-day commitment; the course day is eight hours, six of which are instruction, practice, and feedback. Course days can be scheduled consecutively or at intervals.
Participants
Up to 10 participants for a primary facilitator
Up to 20 participants hosted by two facilitators.
Intended Audience
• Auditors
• Business managers
• Engineers
• IT professionals
• Project managers
• Documentation specialists
• Operations specialists
Topics
- Audience Analysis
- Document Design and Readability
- Grammar: Subject–Verb Agreement, Active Voice
- Document Structure
- Being Clear, Concise, and Consistent
- Outlining
- Editing
- Building Tables
- Bullets and Parallelism
- Selected Microsoft Word Skills
Method of Delivery
We provide on-site technical writing workshops at your location. We have also developed online-based training materials for this course to allow our facilitator to virtually support groups of attendees.
Materials
Each participant receives the Technical Writing Guide, which is the course workbook and a set of Quick Reference Cards for reference after the course.
Each participant must bring a computer or work tablet that supports Microsoft Word and a work-specific document to work on during the technical writing traning.
Pricing
- Technical Writing Workshop - 10 Participants $5,200
Includes a non-customized version of our popular technical writing workshop for up to 10 attendees.
- Technical Writing Workshop - 20 Participants Contact Us
Includes a non-customized version our our technical writing workshop for up to 20 attendees.
- Customized Technical Writing Workshop Contact Us
Looking for customization to suit your specific needs, include your documents and templates, or provide the workshop for more than 20 attendees?
- Public Technical Writing Workshop $895
Offered virtually twice a year for individuals. Next workshop is February 21-22, 2023. Includes same content as our non-customized workshop.