| Location of Course |
Cork International Airport Hotel, Cork |
| Trainer |
Jack Foley - Professional Training Solutions |
| Learning Outcomes |
'Any scientist who cannot explain what he is doing to a reasonably intelligent 14-year old is either incompetent or a charlatan' - Einstein. Unfortunately, most business people, scientists and engineers have real difficulty with communicating their ideas to each other - not to mention a 14-year old. That`s where technical writing comes in. Good technical writers are also good teachers. They excel at explaining difficult concepts for readers who will have no time to read twice. Technical writers have an excellent eye for detail. They know punctuation, syntax, and style, and they can explain these rules to authors who need to know why their drafts need to be changed.
Great technical writing can make a poor product usable - poor technical writing can make a great product useless. |
| Eligibility |
Participants should be committed to delivering reports, manuals and routine communications that are accurate, concise, clear and focussed on the needs of the target audience. |
| Further Enquiries |
Aoife Dunne
Training Administrator
t: 021 453 0141
e: aoife@corkchamber.ie |
| Course Content |
This course aims to ensure that participants can make their technical documentation accurate, brief, clear, complete and, above all, useful. The emphasis is on writing to impart complex technical information to a specific target audience. |
| Enrolment and Start Dates Comment |
Start Date: 28/03/2013 |
| Subjects Taught |
How to Structure Reports:
- A breakdown of report sections
- Making a list of topics
- Arranging chapters and sections
- Writing clear headings
- Sorting into logical sequence
- Composing a Table of Contents
- Writing a management summary
- Compiling appendices
- Writing conclusions and recommendations
Basic Sentence Rules:
- Adopting writing rules - why and how?
- Controlling sentence length
- Using vertical lists
- Using tables
- Cutting down on clauses
- Voices: passive versus active
Technical Writing for Software:
- Knowing your end user
- Interviewing Subject Matter Experts
- Explaining jargon
- Style and consistency
- Does it work? - Smart testing
- Updates - Documentation control
Working with Words:
- Clarifying and imparting complex information
- Abbreviations, acronyms and jargon
- Using different tenses
- Avoiding verbosity
- Using determiners correctly
- Keeping it simple
Brushing up on Grammar and Punctuation:
- The basics of punctuation, and grammar
- Common errors and how to avoid them
- Using personal pronouns correctly
- Using the apostrophe correctly
- Their, there and they`re
- Effect and affect |
| Duration |
1 Day, 9.30am - 4.30pm. |
| Number of Places |
14 |
| Course Fee |
Cork Chamber Member Rate: €130.00
Non-member rate: €185.00 |
