03 Dec Technical Writing Certificate Course (Weekdays)
A course for those who want to excel in software documentation and learn Markdown with GitHub.
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: 9 days
- Dates: Jan 6-9 (Mon-Thu), Jan 16-17 (Thu-Fri), Jan 20-22 (Mon-Wed) 2025
- Time: 10 AM-12.30 PM IST
- Certification Types: Full course Successful Completion (All days) or Participation Certificate (Selected days)
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Testimonials
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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: 8 days
- Sessions: 2 weeks, 9 sessions, 23 hours
- Dates of Sessions:
- Jan 6, 7, 8, 9 (Mon-Thu): Session 1-4
- Jan 16, 17 (Thu-Fri): Session 5-6
- Jan 20-22 (Mon-Wed): Session 7-9
- 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)
18 batches completed on weekends.
1st batch on weekdays.
- Full course: 170+ students completed the course in one year
- Selected Weekly Modules: 340+ 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
For Full Course, the following Fee structure is available:
Option 1: PayPal Payment: USD 200
Option 2 (UPI): Full Course INR 13,000
Direct UPI payment to paytechwriters@icici
Option 3: Payment by Third-party Gateway (Cards/NetBanking/UPI): INR 13,800
GST and Discount
- The fee includes an 18% GST fee as per the Indian government rule.
- Common discount: Discount of 25% / 15% / 10% on total fee for TWT Annual members. View Membership page for details.
Course Curriculum
Jan 6: 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
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: Jan 7-8
Technical Writing English: The Key Skill for a TW
Day 2: 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
Day 3: 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
- Write a topic
- Apply all learnings of Day 2 and 3
Dates: (Jan 9, 16, 17)
Technical Writing – Authoring Processes and Graphics
Day 4 (Jan 9): 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
Day 5 and 6 (Jan 16-17): 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
Tasks
- Writing a concept topic
- Writing two task topics
- Writing a Reference topic
- Using graphics in the document
Date: Jan 20-21
The Guide Saga
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
- FAQs
- Release Notes
- Activity using templates for all guides
Task
Using the template, write 2 guides
Date: Jan 22
3 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.
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.
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