This virtual 2-day programme is available on-demand.
Participating helps learners to improve their technical
writing and communication skills.
Day one focusses on reviewing different
forms of technical writing, writing style, conventions, and best practice.
Day
two extends these principles to digital forms of communication such as
instant messaging, collaboration, and project tracking.
Participants are invited to review their own technical documents and how they currently utilize
digital communication tools (email, messaging, etc.), identifying areas for
improvement.
Peer to peer learning is supported in order to continually improve skills within attendees' organizations post-course completion.
Day 1
- Making your writing
structured for quality documents.
- Making your writing
clear and concise
- Handling style, tone,
and voice
- Handling typography,
images, tables, captions
- Approaching various
engineering genres
- Structuring your time when
drafting, collaboration and reviewing.
Day 2
- Sharepoint/wiki pages
as portals for projects and organizational information
- Instant messaging, best
practice, and potential pitfalls
- Good Document creation, sharing and collaboration habits
- Getting to know your
communication and tracking tools.
Peer to peer learning is facilitated and learners encouraged to self-direct a training post-course completion.