Writing Technical Documents

Course objectives

This course is essential to anyone who writes User Guides, Procedures and Instructions, Reference Material, Specifications, Tutorials or Installation documents. It shows you how to communicate information to both a technical and a non technical audience.

Duration and dates

One-day Intensive:

We show you how to write good technical documents, step-by-step. You will learn the various points via exercises throughout the day.

Two-day Workshop:

Use group discussion, exercises and working on real examples to practice the skills you have learnt. You can bring your own live examples to the workshop to work on.

Customisation

Our course can be customised to cover your specific needs. Ask for details.

This course will show you how to:

  • Communicate information clearly to any audience
  • Adopt the authoring principles and writing styles appropriate to your technical documents
  • Use ‘Plain English’
  • Produce the estimates and schedules that make up a documentation plan
  • Plan your document and choose the right layout and structure
  • Proof read – tips and tricks

Interested? – To request a full course outline, please contact us.