McMurrey Associates: Courses in Technical Communication
Enroll in online continuing-education-style courses that are instructor led—a real human being to act as your trusty guide, mentor. Learn, practice essential skills using both videos and transcripts of those videos. Do practice tasks and send them to your instructor for review and rework as needed. Get help via e-mail or in online-meeting tools such as TeamViewer, Zoom.
Courses cost $175 US, last 6 to 10 weeks (can be completed sooner or extended longer), and are conducted in English. (Spanish or French with a dictionary nearby!)
If you are interested, read about the coordinator/instructor or contact admin@mcmassociates.io, click an image below and sign up!
Learn, Practice, Use Content Creation Tools!
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- MadCap Flare for Content Creation: the standard college course
- Adobe FrameMaker for Content Creation: emphasiszing the process of report writing
- Microsoft Word for Content Creation: includes instructions, proposal, recommendation report, data report projects
- Integrated Development Environments for Content Creation: course featuring Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, or CodePen
Get Ready for College Technical Writing!
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- Technical Writing Modes Course: beginner's course featuring Kinneavyan modes, basic science writing (Technical Writing 1)
- Process-Intensive Technical Writing Course: emphasis on the process of report writing (Technical Writing 2)
- Essential Technical Writing Course: the standard college course (Technical Writing 3)
- Professional Technical Writing for Nontechnical Writers Course: instructions, proposals, recommendation reports, data reports
Join in with Collaboration Tools
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- Confluence Team Projects Course: brainstorm projects, attend online meetings, create your own space, collaborate on documents
- Git/GitHub for Technical Writers Course: create repositories, commit files, branch, merge, clone, use GitHub
- Markdown for Technical Writers Course: format online documents with tagging similar to but much easier than HTML
- Drupal Web CMS Course: set up and manage an online environment where people can write documents without knowing code, vote in polls, contribute to forums, write their own blogs
Add Front-End Developer Tools to Your Skillset!
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- XHTML/CSS Course 1: basic web page, Visual Studio Code, lists, basic CSS, images, color, tables, boxes, and borders, audio, video, final project
- XHTML/CSS Course 2: tooltips, popups, forms, tripane format, Bootstrap menus, accordions, carousel, responsive pages, hero image, long-scroll, final project
- Flexbox/Grid Course: float, positioning, media queries, responsive images, responsive typography
- Google Analytics Course:GA4, basic setup, session metrics, user nationality or city, conversion metrics, source and media of visitors
Advance into Structured Authoring, DITA, and XML!
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- DITA Course (oXygen): Structured authoring, concept, task, reference topics; maps, conrefs, multiple outputs
- XML Course (oXygen): Structured authoring, well-formed documents, elements, attributes, DTDs, XSLT, XSL-FO
- MadCap Flare Course: XML authoring, topic-based, numerous templates, multiple outputs
- DITA Open Toolkit Course: Structured authoring, Concept, task, reference topics; maps, conrefs, multiple outputs
Become a Valued Technical Editor, Peer Reviewer, Know Your Utilities!
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- Technical Editing Course: copyediting, proofreading, traditional hardcopy markup, track changes, substantive editing, localization/internationalization, accessibility, style sheets, style guides, abundant editing practice
- Essential Grammar, Usage, Punctuation Course: Grammar terminology, parts of speech, parts of sentences, phrase and clause types, usage exercises, punctuation exercises
- FileZilla FTP Course: Setup and configuration, downloading, uploading, file and directory creation, file permissions, remote file editing
- Essential Tools for Technical Writers Course: Common file system tasks (DOS, Windows, LINUX), basic image editing (GIMP), file permissions, batch editing, simulated tech support, Vusual Studio Code
