Single sourcing and content reuse training course

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This online training course teaches the basic skills in single sourcing and writing content for reuse.

The ten learning modules in this course contain videos of the trainer with supporting slides and images. The course includes exercises for the delegates to complete and review.

Why attend this course?

This course is recommended by the Australian Society for Technical Communication.

Who is this course for?

If you need a solid understanding of the basics of single sourcing and content reuse, this affordable training course is ideal for you.

What will I learn?

This online training course teaches the basic skills in single sourcing and writing content for reuse.

Topics covered

Introduction

Single Sourcing definitions

  • What is single sourcing?

Why single source?

When single sourcing might be a bad idea

Writing for re-use

  • Single sourcing across documents
  • Single sourcing across different media (mobile, paper etc)
  • Creating variations of the same document
  • The writing process

Structured v unstructured writing

Planning and designing single sourced content

  • Authoring Guidelines and Style Guides
  • Defining information types, content types, metadata dimensions
  • Content modelling and mapping
  • Mapping to output type
  • Publishing single sourced content

Single sourcing software

Summary

Delivery format

The course comprises ten modules in total, which you can complete at your own pace. The course will take delegates approximately 1/2 to 1 day to complete.

The course modules are delivered via the Web in small, manageable modules, totalling 81 minutes. With the exercises, each delegate will need to allocate around four to seven hours to complete the course.

The exercises and course notes are provided as PDFs and a Word document.

Our expertise

As well as teaching technical communication, we also create end-user documentation, Help and UI text for clients. This means every course is based on practical experience of technical writing in today’s environment. The techniques you’ll learn on this course are the same ones used by our projects team.

Price and how to book

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