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Brooklyn College: Technical Writing Certificate
Brooklyn College: Technical Writing Certificate - Course Syllabus
This link lists the course syllabus for:
Grammar, Usage, Mechanics for Technical Writers
Technical Writing Fundamentals
Graphics for Technical Writers
User Guides and FrameMaker
Technical Documentation with XHTML and CSS
Online Helps and RoboHELP
Researched Technical Reports and Proposals
Indexing
Technical Editing
User Guides with Microsoft Word
Starting a Technical-Writing Career
XML for Technical Writers
Business Communications
Writing Revisable Manuals
Writing Revisable Manuals
A fantastic resource on how to write manuals. A must visit for any tech writer.
Power Tools for Technical Communication: Headings Practice
Power Tools for Technical Communication: Headings Practice
Use this example to create practice exercises for creating headings. Take an article on popular science; remove all the headings and sub-headings. Ask the students to insert the right headings and sub-headings at appropriate places.
Create a variation in the above exercise by mixing (jumble) the paragraphs before asking the students to work on the exercise.
Power Tools for Technical Communication
Power Tools for Technical Communication: "Sentence-Style Revision"
History of Computing - Xerox Star Research
Xerox Star Research: "The Contributions and the Downfall of the Xerox Star"
