Learn and Practice Essential Technical Writing

In this course, you learn about and practice essential technical writing skills such as adapting documents for specific audiences; formatting with headings, lists, notices, highlighting, tables and images; crafting a simple readable, engaging writing style; adding images and tables to your documents; cross-referencing images, tables, and related information; and creating and including standard content for reports and instructions.

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What will I learn in this essential technical writing course?

In this course, you:

describe the audience (and its type) for your technical documents, and adapt content and writing style that specific audience
work over your rough draft to achieve a simple readable, engaging writing style
create meaningful, task-oriented headings in your documents
when necessary, format text with bulleted and numbered lists
add properly formatted and positioned images and tables with titles, captions, and labels as necessary
in instructions, use notices for situations involving danger to people, minor nonfatal injury to people, damage to equipment or data, failure of the procedure, or emphasis or exceptions
use industry-standard highlighting (bold, italics, alternate font, or color) according to a highlighting scheme that you construct or one that is required
write introductions to instructions and reports with standard expected content
include standard expected components of reports, formatted properly

What essential technical writing study resources are available?

You use these resources:

links to informative web pages
videos and transcripts of those videos
interactive online exercises and quizzes for practice
e-mail to your instructor when you have questions
send your work to your instructor for review and revision if necessary

Can I see some example units for this essential technical writing course?

Instructions writing project guide

Headings unit

Can I see technical writing job posts?

Technical writing job posts
indeed.com August 2022 excerpt (popup). Possibly $35,000 per month is a typo.
indeed.com August 2024 excerpt (popup).

What are the grade possibilities in this essential technical writing course?

Your instructor can write a document confirming which essential technical writing units you completed and evaluating any original project creation and writing you did in the course. In addition to sending you this document, your instuctor can send this document to your current or prospective employers.

If you are interested in letter, number, or pass/fail grade, contact admin@mcmassociates.io

What does this essential technical writing course cost?

McMurrey Associates $95 USD
No other purchases necessary.

How does this essential technical writing course work?

You have 93 days to complete the units of this course.
You are welcome to work ahead of the schedule you see on your schedule page for this course. If you foresee needing extra time, contact admin@mcmassociates.io
No refunds will be granted after the third day that you have access to this course.
Unless results are automatic, your instructor will review, comment on, and return your work within three days of receipt. Expect an e-mail confirmation that your instructor has received your work.
Your instructor is available many hours per week to answer your questions and provide other help. Setting up an appointment works best.
The topics in this course are the most important at beginning and intermediate levels. You can request units on other topics; your instructor will consider adding them.
Your instructor will gladly provide you with a letter describing the quality of your work in this course.
Your instructor will make reasonable efforts to ensure your success in this course but can make no guarantees concerning your writing or career success outside of this course.

How do I register and when do I start?

Click the registration link just above. Once we receive your payment for this course, you receive a link in which you select a start date. Your schedule is then set up for you with due dates starting 3 days from the start date you selected.
For each unit:
1. you do some reading, watch some videos to learn concepts and procedures for that unit. (You can skip units for whatever reason, but if you need a recommendation, your instructor will mention those omissions.)
2. Use whichever software you prefer.
3. you then practice the concepts and procedures of that unit. The videos show you step by step how to do the practice work for that unit.
4. you send the practice work to your instructor, who reviews and comments, and if necessary explains revisions needed. You repeat the revision–review cycle until you get it right. (You can choose not to revise—it's your course, your money.)

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