Who Can Benefit?

• Managers
• supervisors
• anyone who wish to improve their technical writing competencies

Course Objectives:

• Adopt a writing style that meets the expectations of the reader
• Communicate clearly and concisely
• Show a positive and professional image
• Demonstrate – through practical example- learning principles of outlining and organizing different types of technical reports.
•  Demonstrate – through practical example- the ability to adapt content and detail to suit different levels of readership.
• Demonstrate – through practical example- a full- scale understanding of the standards of effective writing craftsmanship

Course Outline:

•  Introduction and Overview
•  Putting technical Writing where it belongs
•  Better writer, Better Engineer
•  (10) Dysfunctional things that may destroy your credibility as a technical writer .
• Types & Purposes of technical reports
• Technical / reports vs. other types of reports (financial / legal / medical / business)
• The specific requirements of technical writing.
•  Factual reports/ Analytical reports/ Instructional reports/ Leading reports.
•  An analysis of your own writing habits:
• Why technical reports are difficult to write?
• Factors that influence your own on-the-job writing
•  What does it mean to write effectively?
•  Good writing, vs. effective writing
•  The 12 Cs of effective writing
• Organizing your report    
•  Stages of report preparation and writing
•   How to engineer you technical report?
• Anatomy of a technical report
•  Illustrative techniques and computer assisted applications that add power to report presentation.
• Using index in measuring readability and economy of your writing