Technical Writing Skills

After taking this workshop, you should be better able to:

• translate complex ideas into clear, logical and technically accurate documents
• produce technical information for non-specialist audiences
• help your readers to take action or make decisions more effectively

Understanding your readers 

• Building information about your readers
• Focusing on your readers’ needs
• Using a reader analysis chart
• Generating your content

Processes and instructions 

• Best practice for writing instructions
• Project – writing instructions
• Describing a piece of equipment 
• Project – describing a process 

Test and lab reports

• Project – conducting a test
• The purpose of your reports
• Titles and abstracts
• Exploring the IMRaD structure
• Project – writing a test report

Reviewing 

• Clarity and conciseness
• Using articles effectively
• Dealing with technical language
• Giving definitions 
• An editing process
• Project – editing your reports

• Developing level course: Take your skills to the next level
• Experience: Strong establishing level skills
• Minimum CEFR Advanced (C1) level English 

The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) is an international standard for describing language ability. Track your progress.

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