Technical Writing Weekend Modules

Technical Writing weekend modules offer 9 different courses on 9 consecutive weekends for freshers and experienced technical writers. This course is not required for those who have enrolled in the Technical Writing Fundamentals  Certificate Course.

If you select more than one weekend modules together, you earn extra discounts.

IMPORTANT! After Feb 23, registration is open only for Mar 12 (Markdown) and Mar 18 (Camtasia). Seats are full for other sessions.

Join one or multiple modules:

 

Overall Course Curriculum

Week 1 (Jan 21-22)

Introduction to Technical Documentation and Technical Writing

  • What is Technical Documentation
  • Industry and Domains using Technical Documentation
  • Key components of Technical Documentation
  • Who is a Technical Writer?
  • Key Skills Required
  • How to be a successful Technical Writer

Style guides and Templates

  • Types of Style Guides: MSTP, Chicago and others
  • Templates: Concept, how to create a template

View Details: Introducing Technical Writing

Fee

Fee for this Module (Both Days) – INR 2500

 

Week 2 (Jan 28-29)

Technical Writing English: The Key Skill for a TW

  • Grammar
    • Parts of Speech (According to technical documentation requirement)
    • Syntax -(Sentence construction, Voice, Tense, wordiness)
  • American English Standard
  • Plain English

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Fee

Fee for this Module (Both Days) – INR 3000

Week 3 (Feb 4-5)

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Authoring Processes and Concepts

  • Elements of Document (TOC)
  • Structured
  • Unstructured
  • Minimalism
  • DITA

Authoring Types

  • Modular Writing
  • Topic-based writing
  • Task-based writing
  • Scenario-based writing
  • Feature-based Writing

Documentation Quality Check

  • Quality Measurement 
  • Readability Index
  • Validations

Fee

  • Fee for this Module (Both Days) – INR 3000

 

Week 4 (Feb 11-12)

The Guide Saga

Writing guides with global templates:

  • User Guide
  • Quick Start Guide
  • Getting Start Guide
  • Release Notes

Fee

  • Fee for this Module (Both Days) – INR 3000
  • Group of 3 or more: INR 2600 each

 

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Week 5 (Feb 18-19)

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Working in Agile with cross-functional Teams

  • Working in Agile with multiple cross-functional teams
  • SDLC and DDLC in Agile
  • Using JIRA
  • Interviewing SMEs
  • Estimating Time and Task

Fee

  • Fee for this Module (Both Days) – INR 3000
  • Group of 3 or more: INR 2500 each

 

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Week 6 (Feb 25-26)

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Feb 25: Oxygen XML Author Workshop

Feb 26 Confluence Workshop

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Fee

  • Fee ONLY for Oxygen XML Author for DITA – INR 3000
  • Fee ONLY for Confluence Workshop – INR 2500

 

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Week 7 (March 4-5)

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Learning Technical Documentation Tools

March 4- MadCap Flare Workshop

March 5 – Adobe FrameMaker Workshop

Fee

Only for one Workshop: INR 3000

 

Week 8 (March 11-12): Adobe RoboHelp+Markdown using GitHub

March 11 Introduction to RoboHelp

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March 12: Learn how to create Markdown projects and work with GitHub . Also, learn how to create a portfolio page. 

Outline

  • Learn Markdown to author technical documentation
  • Learn how to work with GitHub using Markdown
  • Create a portfolio page using Jekyll

 (View Course page)

 

Fee

Mar 11: Fee ONLY for Adobe RoboHelp – INR 3000

Mar 12: Markdown+GitHub – INR 2000

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Week 9 (March 18): Camtasia Workshop

Learn how to create Video using Camtasia. Yuvaraj Radhakrishna.
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Outline

  • Start from scratch
  • Working with images to add
  • Working with text
  • Using Audio
  • Publishing output

Fee

March 18 Fee – INR 2000

 

About the Instructor

The course will be conducted by 8 instructors led by Punit Shrivastava.

Punit Shrivastava is involved in mentoring and helping technical writing community for a long time. He prefers sharing knowledge and learning with the focus on having a skilled community. He has 20+ years of experience in the field of writing that spreads across writing for English daily, The Asian Age, and 17+ experience in technical documentation.

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2 Comments
  • Avinash
    Posted at 07:21h, 23 January Reply

    Do enrolled folks get printed training material for course undergone after training completion?

    • K_admin
      Posted at 08:07h, 28 January Reply

      No. We share a PDF. You can take the print out.

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