This Professional Technical Communication Certificate is designed to help new and existing writers work within a range of styles specific to the field of technical writing. This program focuses on advancing the writing styles and competencies needed to create technical written reports, project proposals, feasibility studies, website communications, presentations, manuals, and other forms of technical correspondence. A well-rounded technical writer should have knowledge and writing experience across these areas.
As a technical writer, you may be to write or edit many different types of projects. By applying the principles presented in this course, you can expand your skills to cover a wide range of projects. Just as importantly, you can gain skills that will benefit every project you are assigned. The organizational skills required for a user guide, the attention to client guidelines required for a proposal, and the ability to integrate examples and interviews required for a technical magazine article carry over into other types of writing. In the process of completing this course, you will create a portfolio of well-defined written technical documents, which can be added to or expanded after the class has ended.
Your completed work will be evaluated using the lesson guidelines as criteria. No books are required for this course; instead, web links to multiple resources are provided. Students may complete this program in an accelerated fashion.
This Certificate program requires you to follow specific instructions for each lesson. You may send your completed first lesson to the Course Administrator who will provide any necessary feedback to ensure you are on the right track for developing your course portfolio. Each lesson builds upon the concepts of the previous lesson, and follows the same methodology. When you have completed all of the lessons, you will mail your course portfolio to the Course Administrator to review and grade.
The Certificate in Professional Technical Communication provides you the opportunity and means to achieve the following outcomes:
Different types of technical documents require different skills and strategies. By completing the Certificate in Professional Technical Communication, you will learn how to effectively create each of the following documents and practice the accompanying skill sets:
This course examines each of these document types and explores the writing skills associated with them. You may with the permission of the instructor substitute a required document with one of your own suggestion.
Each lesson is carefully developed around your ability to develop a baseline of written content that assumes some knowledge, little knowledge, or no knowledge of the technical document assigned. After you read and apply the tips and, techniques and grasp the lesson-specific writing strategies, you will reapply this new knowledge to your baseline document. A comparison of the original baseline writing to the developed "treatment" document allows you to apply the new knowledge gained to practical writing experiences in the workplace.
You can complete this course in as little as 10-15 weeks or take up to 2-3 months.
Enroll now at JER OnlineThe Certificate in Professional Technical Communication requires independent and self-paced study. The instructional developer of this program has provided a detailed method of study. Self-directed quizzes and short answer probe questions help you evaluate your mastery of specific learning objectives. These tasks are for student evaluation only.
To earn the official Certificate in Professional Technical Communication, you are required to submit your completed lessons, which will then be evaluated for accuracy and representative knowledge of the subject matter. This will occur at the beginning, midpoint, and end of the program. For more details regarding the process leading to the Certificate in Professional Technical Communication, please review the course curriculum Program Outline.
The goal of this lesson is to prepare you for the writing projects assigned in future lessons. You will see how to tailor your writing to a particular audience and purpose.
When you have finished this lesson, you will be able to:
The goal of this lesson is to write a proposal that combines persuasive elements and factual presentation so as to convince reviewers to award you a contract or buy your services.
When you have finished this lesson, you will be able to:
The goal of this lesson is to use data in your writing. Data can be numbers, presented in a table or interspersed in your text. It can also be displayed visually, in charts and graphs. The ideal presentation has numbers as well as visuals, and text that describes what the data mean.
When you have finished this lesson, you will be able to:
The goal of this lesson is to write for an audience that pursues new ideas and new knowledge. The audience may be academic, or it may be a professional group that wants to advance findings and debate in its field. Research writing requires a style that is brief, to the point, and conforms to the highly specific requirements of the publication to which it is submitted.
When you have finished this lesson, you will be able to:
The goal of this lesson is to write a how-to guide that can lead someone through a procedure from start to finish.
When you have finished this lesson, you will be able to:
The goal of this lesson is to begin writing a user guide that helps someone understand a complex product. In this lesson, you will plan the flow of your document based on the work flow of someone using the product. In a later lesson, you will complete one section of the user guide with content.
When you have finished this lesson, you will be able:
The goal of this lesson is to write content for a user guide. You will complete one section of the outline you created in the previous lesson, when you planned the structure of a large user guide.
When you have finished this lesson, you will be able to:
The goal of this lesson is to write instructional material that develops a user's skills or knowledge.
When you have finished this lesson, you will be able to:
The goal of this lesson is to write a magazine article that conveys technical information in an engaging way for a general audience.
When you have finished this lesson, you will be able to:
This Certificate Course must be completed within the specified time period noted at the time of enrollment. Extension fees are applicable beyond the end date as follows: 1 month, $149.00; 2 months, $179.00; 3 months, $199.00. Upon successful completion of this course you may apply for a paper-based certificate from one of our Accredited University Partners. University certificate processing fees apply.
Upon successful completion of this course you may apply for a paper-based certificate from one of our Accredited University Partners. University certificate processing fees apply.
At the time of successful course completion, Technical Writing Certificate Badges are generated for student use. They recognize and verify that specialized learning has taken place in the subject area enrolled in. Our Official Digital Badges can be used to display a skill set and achievements on social networking profiles such as LinkedIn, etc. as well as on various job sites and much more.
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