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    Benefits

    You will be able to:

     Use the writing process to compose effective technical documents


     Design technical documents appropriate for specific audiences and writing situations
     Apply conventions of technical documents to original compositions
     Apply the conventions of Standard English to all written documents

    Learning Objectives
     Learn techniques to tailor information to your reader
     Identify the features of and differences between various types of technical documents
     Become a more critical editor of technical documents

    Course Outline
    Essential Elements of Technical Writing

     Fundamentals of effective technical writing – The 5Cs


     Rhetorical awareness and user-centered design
     POWER writing process
     Battling writer’s block

    Understanding your reader

     Different audiences
     Building information about your readers
     Reader analysis chart
     Audience types and level of expertise

    Document design

     Documentation plans
     Building outlines
     Headings and Table of contents
     Indexing

    Writing clear and concise technical documents

     Plain English
     Active and passive sentences
     Concise sentences
     Avoiding redundancy and logic gaps
     Writing better headings
    Presenting information clearly

     Bullet pointing
     Presenting information clearly
     Using diagrams
     Selecting diagrams

    Editing and reviewing

     Readability statistics using Microsoft Word


     Ensuring clarity and conciseness
     Technical Language
     Giving definitions
     Improving grammatical accuracy
     Editing process

    Guidelines and formats for technical documents

     Purpose and structure of reports


     Sections of a report
     Titles and abstracts in reports
     Proposals versus reports
     Purpose and sections of a proposal

    Action Plan

    Course information
    Public Training Dates 2018

    16-17 May | other dates to follow

    Length: 2 days

    Venue: British Council Learning Hub

    Maximum group size: 16

    Registration Fee: Php 12,500.00 (VAT inclusive) per participant

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