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Course Duration: 0.20 Hours

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Program Overview

We have provided this excerpt from The Writing Center's Technical Writing Program to give prospective students a free preview of the style and depth of our courses.

Effective writing speeds the successful transfer of complex information. The Technical Writing Program, presented in four course modules, guides you through practical techniques to produce clear, readable memos, reports, procedures, and other technical documents.

Listen to a short introduction from The Writing Center.

Numerous exercises provide hands-on practice as you learn how to write clear, precise, readable documents while effectively translating technical language.

Upon registration, you receive access to all four modules:
Module 1-Clear, Direct Wording
Module 2-Illustrations, Flow, and Format
Module 3-The Writing Process--Planning Technical Documents
Module 4-Organizing Technical Documents

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Program Features

- Module 1
  Convey maximum information in minimum space by applying these five strategies for clear, direct wording:
  1. Eliminate wordiness.
  2. Place key words in power positions.
  3. Use active and passive voice appropriately.
  4. Be specific.
  5. Avoid jargon and pompous wording.
- Module 2
  Apply these three strategies to ensure reader-friendly documents:
  1. Use illustrations to complement and clarify the text.
  2. Use transitional words to improve flow.
  3. Use format to guide the reader: headings, numbered lists, and short paragraphs.
- Module 3
  Use an efficient four-step writing process.
  Use your knowledge of each document's purpose, goal, and audience to:
  1. Write a subject heading that ensures your document is read.
  2. Begin and end documents effectively.
  3. Write appropriately for executive, expert, lay, and combined audiences.
  4. Gain cooperation and goodwill with reader-centered wording.
- Module 4
  Apply three organizational techniques to ensure readable, usable documents:
  1. Use a Zero Draft to capture key ideas.
  2. Organize documents logically and strategically.
  3. Structure technical reports so that all audiences can access your information.

Program Instructor

: The Writing Center

The Writing Center, Inc.

The Writing Center, Inc., specializes in customized corporate business and technical writing programs that increase the clarity, impact, and overall professionalism of participants' on-the-job documents. Carol S. Klein, M.A., and Sandra S. Nutting, M.A., The Writing Center's founders, have more than 30 years' combined experience in teaching effective writing.

Their reputation for consistently excellent programs and their recognized writing experience has resulted in their selection to design and conduct hundreds of in-house seminars for government agencies and for leading U.S. aerospace, consulting, environmental, health care, insurance, manufacturing, and technology companies. Carol and Sandra believe that writing is a skill that can be mastered with the knowledge of essential techniques.
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