Improving Your Technical Writing Skills


Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
Course Number
Expertise Level



Overview/Description
For many professionals in the pharmaceutical, technology, finance, and similar industries, technical writing skills are an important part of day-to-day communication. Writing well in these industries isn’t just a matter of writing grammatically correct sentences; it also involves producing technical documents that are suited to the requirements, comprehension level, and background of their readers. In this course, you'll learn techniques for better writing that will help you avoid common pitfalls and structure your business writing more effectively. You'll find out how to tailor your written communication to the specific requirements of different types of technical material – so that whether you want to persuade or to instruct, you'll be able to achieve your writing goals.

Target Audience
Technical professionals wishing to improve their writing skills, including IT personnel such as programmers and systems engineers as well as technical engineering and scientific professionals.

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
0.4

Lesson Objectives

Improving Your Technical Writing Skills

  • identify common writer errors
  • sequence the steps in planning a piece of writing
  • recognize guidelines for writing instructions
  • recognize guidelines for writing training material
  • recognize guidelines for writing reference materials
  • recognize guidelines for writing persuasively
  • Course Number:
    acm_06_a01_it_enus

    Expertise Level
    Everyone