WHO SHOULD ATTEND This course is valuable for anyone motivated to enhance his or her writing skills in the technical environment. Job roles that may benefit from this workshop include engineering, testing/validation, procurement, marketing, quality management, and management. CONTENT HIGHLIGHTS DAY ONE • Technical communication and how to identify the good from the bad • Complete a self-assessment to identify personal technical writing goals • Form Checker Teams for workshop activities • Objectives and purposes of various forms of technical documentation • Identifying audience needs using audience analysis job aid • Strategies for gathering, organizing, and developing content effectively, focusing on: “Readability”, “usability” and “accuracy” • Principles of proper grammar, mechanics, and spelling using the Hacker Pocket Style Manual • Principles of graphically representing text and data DAY TWO • Formatting techniques to enhance readability • Other “unwritten rules” and considerations • Exercise: writing and editing your own documentation • Exercise: personal goals based on the self- assessment • Exercise: personal success plan refinement • Instructor coaching on writing INSTRUCTOR Norina L. Columbaro Talent Development Leader Variety of Public and Private Organizations
I.D.# C1605
SCHEDULE September 9-10, 2019 Indianapolis, Indiana November 25-26, 2019 Troy, Michigan
FEES List:
$1,495 $1,346
Members:
TWO-DAYS/1.3 CEUS
Get the complete course description and register: sae.org/learn/content/c1605
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