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Technical Writing in the Corporate World
Course Code: BM-TWIC
This course is for those who want to learn the basics of effective technical writing. Special attention is paid to how to plan, organize, develop, and edit technical documents for the best results. The modern Organization depends on effective communications, clear viewpoints and concrete language that is well expressed.
Technical writing explains technology to various technical, organizational, and societal audiences.
There are no prerequisites for this course.
There is no exam associated with this course.
Modules
- Understanding Technical Writing
- Surveying Your Attitudes Toward Writing
- Knowing Your Audience
- Case Study 1: Analyzing an Audience
- Exercise: Evaluating Effective Technical Writing
- Understanding the Writing Process
- Exercise: Thinking About Your Writing Process
- The Five C’s of Report Writing
- Developing the Technical Document
- Correspondence
- The Memo
- The Cover Letter
- The Resume Report
- Writing Proposals
- The Trip Report
- The Brief Proposal
- The Extended Proposal
- Case Study 2: Thinking Argumentatively
- Writing Procedures
- Long Documents
- Exercise: Collecting Model Technical Documents
- Editing the Technical Document
- Organization
- Document Style
- Checking for Correctness
- Exercise: Identifying the Seven Deadly Errors of Technical Writing
- Pronoun– Reference Agreement Problems
- Subject–Verb Agreement Problems
- Vague Pronoun-Reference
- Dangling Modifiers
- Overuse of Passive Voice
- Inappropriate Comma Use
- Inappropriate Semicolon Use
- A Note on Editing
- Take full control