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Technical Writing

We offer you Level 1 and Level 2 courses in technical writing, plus a workshop on writing system requirement specifications. We're constantly updating and restructuring our content.We also welcome your active participation in building and improving this learning community.

All technical writing and analysis course work is free for you to use, copy, modify, and adapt as you see fit. This is open source learning.

Current Documentation Projects

Open source chairs describes various user personas and their chairs. Join in, it's fun.

• Grandmother chairs

• Astronaut chairs

• Movie Cowboys chairs

Open source cantennas are wifi tuned metal tubes, made from cans or fabricated cheaply. With solar panels, mounted on poles, they can serve as amplified relays.

• cantenna features and calculations

• cantenna applications and projects

Technical writing training is well suited for practical minded communicators:

• Teachers
• Journalists
• IT Professionals
• Project Managers

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• Open and frank discussions on Getting a Job in Technical Writing

An Introduction to Technical Writing

1. Technical Communications Overview
2. Audience Analysis
3. Researching Information
4. Structuring Information
5. Writing Clearly
6. Collaborating
7. The Systems Development Lifecycle (SDLC)

Topics in Technical Writing

1. Technical Writing Strategies
2. Presenting Information
3. Documentation Project Management
4. Documentation and Translation Tools
5. Types of User Documentation
6. Document Design
7. Documentation Cost and Schedule Estimating
8. Internationalization, Localization and Globalization
9. User Interface Design

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• Our Wikiversity Learning Experience so far...

Technical Writing is a rewarding and intellectually stimulating career. The demand for writers who can communicate complex topics in simple formats has never been greater. Technical writing isn't about 'dumbing down'; it's about writing to the correct level.

Technical writers are women and men with strong language and interpersonal skills who produce documentation for some of the smartest people in the world. As you read these pages, please feel free to change them. We enthusiastically welcome your participation.

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External Links

• Impressive|Australian Website Qualification wiki
• Business writing skills
• Technical Communication
• Technical Writing
• Technical Writer
• STC
• Legal Writing
• Web Content Development
• Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators
• Information Architecture
• Information Graphics
• Information Architecture Challenges
• Principles of CAD and Terminology
• Tom Johnson's "I'd rather be writing" Blog
• Wikiversity Course on Software Testing
• Geoff Hart's Web Site
• Cherryleaf Technical Authors Blog

The first group of Level 1 Technical Writing graduates, Prague, Czech Rep. September 2007.

Congratulations to all the hard working students who attended the course and passed the four hour written exam. The exams were graded based on:

• Accuracy
• Completeness
• Structure and Navigation
• Presentation
• Writing Style

We're proud of our graduates, and very pleased with how well Wikiversity has served as a platform for developing and delivering educational content.

See an anonymous student's examination.

Level 1 and Level 2 Technical Writing graduates, Prague, Czech Rep. December, 2007.