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Technical Writing Certificate micro-sites

September 11, 2008

The following course micro-sites are used to support the instructions of courses for the Technical Writing Certificate offered by the Faculty Of Continuing Education and Extension of Mount Royal College. Please note that all of this material is under copyright protection.

Foundations of Technical Communication

Explore the discipline of technical writing, and enhance your writing techniques to meet the demands of today’s business and industrial world. Familiarize yourself with the time-honoured skills and approaches needed to prepare effective, usable technical documentation — whether you are writing reports, proposals, computer manuals or other documents.
Foundations of Technical Communication micro-site

Adobe Acrobat for Technical Writing

Adobe Acrobat’s PDF format allows you to read, review and publish information from a variety of sources as a single organized documentation package. Discover how to use Acrobat to deliver your information to any audience including professional image setters, your local work group, and even the web. Use Acrobat for editorial reviews of documentation and to capture and record information research.
Adobe Acrobat micro site

Editing Technical Documents

Editing is a vital step in creating professional, accurate and usable technical documentation. Discuss the role of the editor and the editing process, as well as examining the types of edits that documents can undergo. Practise various edit types through hands-on exercises.
Editing micro-site

Flare

Flare–from Fundamentals to Mastery is a combination of practical hands-on exercises and discussions periods that guide you through the development of actual HTML-based on-line information systems. This course provides practical experience using Flare to create feature-rich websites and on-line help systems.

Flare micro-site

Indexing Technical Documents

A well-crafted index is essential to locating information within a document, yet preparing an effective index is a complex process. This practical, hands-on course presents a systematic indexing method for technical writers.

Indexing micro-site

Technical Layout and Design

Discover how the principles of page layout, typography and design can help you produce effective and readable technical documents. Put these principles into practice by designing technical documents using Microsoft Word®.

Technical Layout and Design micro-site

Preparing Policies and Procedures

This course examines some reasons why policies and procedures are important, and applies a proven development methodology and format to a real situation requiring policies and procedures documentation.
Preparing Policies and Procedures micro-site

Preparing Technical Documents and Design Specifications

Functional requirements and design specifications are vital to any development or manufacturing project. In this course we will explore the role these and other technical documents play in developing a product, and discover the elements they must have to properly describe a product. We will also prepare representative documents using MS Word.Preparing Technical Documents and Design Specifications micro-site

Writing Engineering Specifications

Writing Engineering Specifications is a short course that applies the principles and practices of technical writing to preparing Engineering Specifications. The practical, hands-on, approach of this course is designed to assist technical and engineering specialists prepare effective engineering specifications.
Writing Engineering Specifications micro-site

Writing User Guides

Design and prepare effective user guides that enable the reader to complete a given set of tasks. Study and follow through the process of guide and manual creation, including task and audience analysis, documentation standards, instruction writing, and information organization using MS Word.
Writing User Guides micro-site

Online Documentation for Technical Writers

As the on–line media grows in popularity and as we become more connected both at home and at work, technical writers are increasingly called to publish their works on–line. On–line Documentation for Technical Writers provides authors with the knowledge and skills needed to go on–line with their publications and to create usable and readable documents for this media.
Online Documentation for Technical Writers micro-site

Site Architecture for Online MediaInformation Web sites, online help, and Intranets are firmly rooted in many aspects of the business and technology world. Review the benefits and challenges of this media, and examine and practice the skills necessary to design sites that are well organized and easy to navigate. Apply these skills while developing an information site using a combination of XHTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and a Content Management System.
Site Architecture for Online Media micro-siteDesign and Authoring for Online MediaInformation websites, on-line help, and Intranets are firmly rooted in many aspects of the business and technology world. Review the benefits and challenges of this media, and examine and practice the skills necessary to design and author pages that are organized, readable, easily comprehended and credible. Apply these skills while authoring pages using a combination of XHTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) within a managed environment.
Design and Authoring micro-siteCreating Training ManualsDesign and prepare effective training materials for a variety of training situations. Study and follow through the process of creating training materials using MS Word, including task and audience analysis, documentation standards, teaching roles, learning sequences, and evaluation techniques.
Creating Training Manuals micro-sitePreparing Software SpecificationsFunctional requirements and design specifications are vital to any development or manufacturing project. In this course we will explore the role these and other technical documents play in developing a software product, and discover the how to describe a software product properly using Use Cases and other specification documents.
Preparing Software Specifications micro-site