Below is an interview with David Farbey of the Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators, where we discuss training, accreditation and CPD in technical communication. We cover: Becoming a technical communicator is different from becoming a lawyer, doctor, developer or an accountant in that, in the UK, there is no standard career path from school. How… Read more »
Category: Training
New training course – Writing skills for developers
Today, we’ve released our latest training course – Writing skills for developers. The course teaches developers the key skills of technical writing for software user documentation. Although it would be better for a professional technical communicator to write the end user documentation, for some organisations, this isn’t always possible. It is for developers who: Need a solid… Read more »
What is the minimal amount of user documentation you should write?
In researching what developers wanted to learn about writing documentation for users, the most common issue related to how much, or how little, they should write. One developer said: “I would want to know what is the minimum I should write. If you can persuade me what is the necessity of each thing I’m capturing, and… Read more »
Policies and procedures training course in June
Discover how to create clear and effective policies and procedures. Cherryleaf’s next public classroom course will be held on Tuesday 13th June, in central London. See: Policies and procedures writing course Tuesday 13th June.
Another Masters degree course for Technical Authors to consider
In August 2016, we blogged about a new online MSc course in Technical Writing Masters degree course from Cork Institute of Technology. There is another academic course for Technical Authors to consider: a distance-learning Master of Arts degree in Content Strategy from FH JOANNEUM. “The programme is designed to meet the needs of working persons and is specially suitable… Read more »