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Many people need to create instructions for end users, but they’ve never had any proper training in how to do this. They might need to develop online Help, procedures, API reference, UI text, user guides or training courses. Are they doing a good job? How could their content could be better? Often, they don’t know.
Cherryleaf teaches you the skills to create great instructional content with ease. We've trained nearly 1,000 people in technical communication. Join in!
You can choose from affordable online courses, classroom-based training courses, podcasts or workshops in technical communication, content strategy, and written business communication.
You’ll improve your skills, and become more confident in your abilities.
If you’ve been involved in technical writing for some time, our advanced courses are an ideal way to develop your skills, and keep them up to date. They are a great way to keep learning and improving yourself.
Overview of our courses
Business communication courses
Online
- Intermediate/Advanced business writing
- Leadership communication course
- Communicating and leading during the lockdown (free mini-course)
Classroom/on premises
- Policies and procedures writing
Technical communication courses
Online
- Fundamentals of technical writing
- Intermediate/Advanced technical communication
- DITA fundamentals
- Documenting REST APIs
- Managing Software Documentation Projects
- Markdown
- Revising and Editing Content
- Single sourcing and content reuse
- Structured Writing Fundamentals
- Trends in Technical Communication
- UI/UX Writing
- Technical Copywriting
Classroom/on premises
- Authoring tools training (Adobe FrameMaker)
- Technical writing course (intermediate/advanced)
Technical writing courses for developers or Support staff
Online
- Technical writing for developers: elearning course
Classroom/on premises
- Technical writing for developers (with Google’s course materials)
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The fundamentals of technical writing course
Learn to write like a professional technical communicator. This course teaches you the fundamentals of technical writing, and helps you understand your role as a Technical Author (or similar position).
Intermediate/Advanced technical communication training course
Write like the best professional technical communicators. Manage your projects with less stress. Be on top of the latest trends and technologies.
Cherryleaf’s intermediate/advanced technical communication skills course provides you with access to a collection of online modules in technical communication, under a low cost monthly subscription plan.
You pay for it for as long as you need it. You can stop when you want, and the subscription will finish at the end of that month. It’s a good way to maintain the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) required by technical communication societies.
It contains:
Technical writing courses for developers
Learn to write clearly by taking the same technical writing courses that Google engineers take:
An affordable way for individual developers to learn the skills of technical writing:
Other technical communication courses
Courses in business communication
Courses for people who need to write more effectively and efficiently:
Free training on technical communication
Delegates also get access to all the past episodes of the Cherryleaf Podcast. There's over 30 hours of free training and advice on becoming a better technical and business communicator for you to listen to. It includes interviews with technical communicators at companies such as Amazon, Cisco, Google and VMWare.Based outside of the UK?
Private, single company, courses are also available - delivered live over the Web from our studio, or at your premises.Contact Cherryleaf for more details.Professional certification as a technical communicator - Technical Author qualifications
Cherryleaf’s training courses can help you become a Junior, Certified Member or Certified Fellow of the Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators (ISTC). The ISTC is the national professional body for technical communicators in the UK. It has members around the world. Junior Members, Members and Fellows are certified by the ISTC through a vetting process, with Members and Fellows entitled to use the initials MISTC or FISTC after their names. All ISTC members have a responsibility to maintain their professional competence through Continuing Professional Development (CPD). Cherryleaf’s courses can help demonstrate you are extending and updating your skills.Course administration
Our Course Administration page gives details on our training terms and conditions.
Where we teach our public classroom courses
Cherryleaf’s classroom courses are held at Savoy Place, London WC2R. This is close to the Strand and Waterloo Bridge.
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