Benefits

You will be able to:

 Use the writing process to compose effective technical documents

 Design technical documents appropriate for specific audiences and writing situations
 Apply conventions of technical documents to original compositions
 Apply the conventions of Standard English to all written documents

Learning Objectives
 Learn techniques to tailor information to your reader
 Identify the features of and differences between various types of technical documents
 Become a more critical editor of technical documents

Course Outline
Essential Elements of Technical Writing

 Fundamentals of effective technical writing – The 5Cs

 Rhetorical awareness and user-centered design
 POWER writing process
 Battling writer’s block

Understanding your reader

 Different audiences
 Building information about your readers
 Reader analysis chart
 Audience types and level of expertise

Document design

 Documentation plans
 Building outlines
 Headings and Table of contents
 Indexing

Writing clear and concise technical documents

 Plain English
 Active and passive sentences
 Concise sentences
 Avoiding redundancy and logic gaps
 Writing better headings
Presenting information clearly

 Bullet pointing
 Presenting information clearly
 Using diagrams
 Selecting diagrams

Editing and reviewing

 Readability statistics using Microsoft Word

 Ensuring clarity and conciseness
 Technical Language
 Giving definitions
 Improving grammatical accuracy
 Editing process

Guidelines and formats for technical documents

 Purpose and structure of reports

 Sections of a report
 Titles and abstracts in reports
 Proposals versus reports
 Purpose and sections of a proposal

Action Plan

Course information
Public Training Dates 2018

16-17 May | other dates to follow

Length: 2 days

Venue: British Council Learning Hub

Maximum group size: 16

Registration Fee: Php 12,500.00 (VAT inclusive) per participant