03 Dec Technical Writing Certificate Course (Weekdays)
A course for those who want to excel in software documentation and learn Markdown with GitHub and AI in Technical Writing.
Key Benefits
– Learn the skills that make a Technical Writer in the IT industry different from any other writer or professional.
– Learn to THINK and WRITE like a Technical writer using global authoring processes, such as DITA.
– Write assignments to get assessed for hands-on learning
Summary:
- Duration: 13 days (April 2026)
- Dates:
- March 30-Apr 3 (Mon-Fri)
- Apr 6-10 (Mon-Fri)
- Apr 13-15 (Mon-Wed)
- Time: 10.15 AM-12.45 PM IST
- Certification Types: Full course Successful Completion (All days) or Participation Certificate (Selected days)
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Overview
- Students who want to start career as a Technical Writer in IT
- All who have started career but want to switch to Technical Writing.
- All Technical Writers who want to excel in Technical Writing and Project Delivery.
- All who want to start career as a Technical Writer.
- All who have taken a break in career and want to join the IT industry as a Technical Writer
Registration is open to people from all countries.
Summary
- Days of Training: 13 days
- Sessions: 3 weeks, 13 sessions, 30 hours
- Dates of Sessions:
- Module 1 (Introduction): March 30
- Module 2 (English): March 31-Apr 1
- Module 3 (Authoring): Apr 2-3, 6
- Module 4 (Guides): Apr 7-9
- Module 5 (AI in TW): Apr 10
- Module 6 (Markdown): Apr 13-14
- Concluding: Apr 15
- Time:
- 2.30 hours: 10 AM-12.30 PM IST (For 1-8 sessions)
- 3 hours: 10 AM-1.00 PM IST (For Session 9)
22 batches completed on weekends.
6th batch on weekdays.
- Full course: 200+ students completed the course in one year
- Selected Weekly Modules: 400+ professionals from software documentation industry
- Students from multiple countries (outside India) have participated. For example, USA, Canada, Australia, UK, Germany, Netherlands, France, Ukraine, Israel, Prague, Qatar, Egypt, UAE, Singapore, Malaysia, Nepal, and Sri Lanka.
- Learn how to think and write like a technical writer in the IT industry
- Learn how to write Concept, Task and Reference Topic
- Learn how to use DITA process
- Earn Certificate from a popular Training Institute
- Learn how to understand a product and users like a technical writer
You can register for the following options:
- Option 1: Full Course (All 13 sessions)
- Option 2: Course without Markdown (11 Sessions)
- Otion 3: Selected module (one or more days)
Full Course (All 13 sessions)
- PayPal Payment: USD 300
- UPI to TWT ID: Full Course INR 20,000
- Third-party Gateway (Cards/NetBanking): INR 21,000
Course without Markdown (11 sessions)
- PayPal Payment: USD 250
- UPI to TWT ID: INR 17,500
- Third-party Gateway (Cards/NetBanking): INR 18,500
Any one module
- Select in the registration form
- INR 2000-4000 range for every module
GST and Discount
- The fee includes an 18% GST fee as per the Indian government rule.
- Common discount: Discount of 25% / 15% / 10% on the total fee for TWT Annual members. View Membership page for details.
Course Curriculum
Mar 31 (Mon): Introduction to Technical Documentation and Technical Writing
2.5 hours
- 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
Activity
- Understand the concept
- Why and what should be the structure
- Discuss
- Output: Template of a guide
Task
- Write an article
- Create a template
Dates: Mar 31-Apr 1 (Tue-Wed)
5 hours
Technical Writing English: The Key Skill for a TW
Technical Writing Grammar
- Parts of speech: Noun, Pronoun, Verb, Conjunction, preposition and others
- Syntax: sentence construction, number of words,
- Voice of speech: Active and Passive
- Wordiness (Readability score)
- Politically correct sentence
- Writing for Accessibility
- Writing for UI and Error Messages
- Best Practices + examples
Activity
Practice with real-life examples and scenarios
Technical Writing English Standards – Part 2
- Standard Technical English with examples
- American English
- British and American English: sentence, spelling, and key tips and tricks)
- Writing a topic as per American English
Activity
- Proofreading and Editing sentences as per technical writing English standards
- Proofreading and Editing paragraphs as per technical writing English standards
- Proofreading and Editing topic as per technical writing English standards
Task
- Exercises on parts of speech
- Article
- Parallelism
- S+V agreement
- Voice and Tense
- American English
- Writing for UI
- Write three topics
- Apply all the learnings of the three days
Dates: Apr 2-3, 6
Technical Writing – Authoring Processes and Graphics
7.5 hours
Authoring Types
Authoring Process and Concepts
- Elements of Document (TOC)
- Structured
- Unstructured
- Minimalism
- DITA
Activity
- Writing a structured document
- Exercises for Minimalism in sentences, paragraphs, and a topic.
Task:
- Convert a document from unstructured to structured
- Edit content using rules of minimalism
Topic-based Authoring
Writing Concept topics
- Rules
- Examples
- Activity
Writing Task Topics
- Rules
- Examples
- Activity
Writing Reference Topics
- Rules
- Examples
- Activity
Working with Images
- Diagrams
- Screenshots
- Other image types
- Use graphic tools
Exercises
- Concept topic
- Two task topics
- Reference topic
- Using graphics in the document
- One Structured document
- Multiple Minimalism exercises
- Multiple Editing exercises
Date: Apr 7-9 (Tue, Wed, Thu)
The Guide Saga
7.5 hours
All about Technical Documentation Guides
- Introduction, names, types
- How to decide which guide is required
- How to plan a guide
- How to prepare the template for a guide
Writing Multiple guides
- Quick Start Guide
- User Guide
- Getting Started Guide
- Release Notes
- Installation Guide
- FAQs
- Activity using templates for all guides
Task
Using the template, write all guides
Date: Apr 10 (Fri)
2.5 hours
AI in Technical Writing
What will the course cover!
- Introduction to AI in Technical Writing
- Popular AI Tools for Writing and Images
- Prompt Engineering for technical writing
- Prepare AI documentation portfolio
- Using AI, how to work as an individual and with the team
- Workshop
Date: Apr 13-14 (Mon-Tue)
5 hours
Markdown+GitHub
What will the course cover!
- Introduction to Markdown Syntax
- How it is transforming the Technical Documentation world
- AsciiDoc vs Markdown
- Markdown Editors
- How to use Markdown
- Building Blocks
- Document Attributes
- Titles
- Paragraphs
- Formatting codes
- Links
- Images/Videos
- Tables
- Admonitions
- Table of Content
- Cheatsheet
- Preparing a Guide using Markdown
- Using GitHub for Technical Documentation project
- Collaboration with team in projects using Markdown
- Publishing to multiple formats.
Apr 15
1 Hour: Project Management
Others
- 1:1 for all full-course (with or without Markdown) participants
Not available to participants in weekend modules
This option cannot be registered separately. All participants of the full course (with or without Markdown) automatically get it.
Facilities for Full Course (with or without Markdown):
- Classroom activities
- 1:1 meeting once
- Submit 5 assignments
- Receive Reviews on 5 assignments
- Appear in Final Exam
- Get certified after receiving a minimum of 70% marks
- Toolkit (For all)
About the Trainer
About the Instructor
The course will be conducted by multiple 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 23+ years of experience in the field of writing that spreads across writing for English daily, The Asian Age, and 20+ experience in technical documentation.
Registration Process
- Payment: Make the payment to
- TWT UPI ID: techwriters@icici
- By Debit/Credit card/Net Banking using the payment gateway links given below. (Gateway charges apply)
- Fill out the registration form, mentioning the payment transaction ID and other mandatory details.
Third-Party Payment links: Pay by Debit/Credit Card/Net Banking
INR 21,000: Full Course (All modules)
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