Effective Technical Writing Skills
Detail
| Date: |
23 Jul 2012 03 Oct 2012 06 Dec 2012 |
| Duration: |
1, day(s) 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
| Fee: | $350.00 |
| Venue: | TBA |
Fees are subjected to prevailing GST of 7%
For more information, please contact JobsDB Learning at 65788111 or email to learning@jobsdb.com.sg
Payment must be made before the commencement of the workshop. No cancellation is allowed 7 days prior to workshop.
Includes course materials, light refreshments and lunch
Outline
This workshop will cover:
- Ten Cs of effective Technical Writing
- Guidelines for Improved Technical Writing
- 7Ps of the Writing Process
- Effective Openings of Technical Letters and Reports
- Effective Closings of Technical Letters and Reports
- Types of Technical Reports - Problem Solving and Project Status Reports
- Proposal to Purchase, Incident and Accident Reports
- Convincing Your Readers
- Making Heavy Technical Writing more Readable - ten proven techniques
- Securing Management "Buy In" and Approval
- Specimen Technical reports for Case-studies
- Checklist of Effective Technical Writing
Facilitators
Sandra Sandu-Reeves
Sandra Sandu-Reeves is an inspiring and passionate global trainer, consultant, speaker and author with a twenty-five year track record training and consulting employees of Fortune 500 corporations in twenty countries across the Asia Pacific. Her training territory includes cities in Asia, Middle East and Australia.
Sandra graduated with a Masters degree in Education (Training and Development) distinction from the University of Sheffield University UK and a Diploma from Trinity College of Speech and Drama, UK. She is a Certified Trainer with the American Management Association (AMA) and a Licensed Trainer with Tony Buzan Centre UK in Thinking Skills, Brain Power, Creative Thinking, Innovation and Mind Mapping. Since 1993, she has been a Certified Management Consultant and is one of the rare recipients of the esteemed Fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants FCMC (USA) citation. Since 1997, she has been listed in the International Directory of Professionals and is Senior Director of CTC Consultants Asia Pacific.
Over the last twenty years, Sandra has been featured on leading television, radio and websites and has trained, consulted and inspired no less than half a million employees of key global corporations across twenty countries.
“Brilliant, engaging, practical trainer with wealth of global experience -IBM
Methodology
Training is practical, job-related and lively with guided writing practice, principles, application time and useful checklists.
Who Should Attend
This practical workshop will benefit all levels of engineers, technical staff, supervisors and executives who have to write clear, convincing and complete technical documentation.
Objectives
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Identify and avoid common errors in business and technical writing
- Reduce time spent in planning and writing
- Organise their writing for easier understanding
- Write persuasively
- Apply the skills learnt to improve job-related writing