Course details
The course develops an awareness of and skill in writing about technical subjects, so that written communication is clear and easy to understand.
As the course progresses the training content can be tailored specifically to focus in on areas that require improvement for the participants. This approach ensures that training achieves a maximum return on investment.
Examples of areas where improvement in the quality of technical publications are of significant benefit are;
- Technical proposals for Internal & External New Product Development funding
- Technical submissions for Government R&D funding & Tax Credits
- Technical reports for internal and external publication
- Technical submissions for European sources of funding
Objectives
- Create a logical, well-argued structure for any piece of communication
- Write clear paragraphs and sentences with greater ease
- Correct and edit difficult sections of text
- Make use of the conventions governing the basic forms in the technical genre
- Produce communicative tables and figures and use layout effectively in a document
- Use punctuation correctly
- Avoid the most common grammatical errors
Who Should Attend?
Technical Professionals
Course Content
Development Strategies
- Forming a Point of View
- Identifying Audiences and Purposes
- The Writing Process
- Team Writing
Skill in Writing
- Creating a Simple Structure
- Using Parallelism
- Writing Paragraphs
- Editing for Emphasis
Forms of Professional Communication
- The Writing Cycle – From Pre-Feasibility to Documentation
- Basic features of a Report
- The Proposal and Terms of Reference
- Design Reports
- Documentation
Production Elements
- Visual Aids
- Proof-Reading
- A Guide to Punctuation and Gramma
Instructor
The training course instructor is Miriam O’Regan with more than 20 years experience in
Technical Writing training and is a recognised expert in the subject.
Updated on 08 November, 2015Course Location
About Space Industry Skillnet
The Space Industry Skillnet is an enterprise led training network that organises essential training for Irish companies who are or who want to be involved in the delivery of technology and services to the European Space Agency (ESA) in support of its space programmes (www.esa.int). The Space Industry Skillnet is a national training network and operates in all technology sectors. The objective of the Space Industry Skillnet is to encourage and enable more Irish companies to consider the space industry as a truly commercial opportunity and to provide them with the skills to do so. One of our aims is to attract Irish companies who would never have thought of operating in the space industry and to show how they can not only make a success of it in a unique and exciting industry but also use that knowledge and technology to spin off into wider ground based industries. This approach has been the true success story of the Irish industry presence in European Space Agency programmes.
ACCESS TO HIGH QUALITY TRAINING
Being a member of the Space Industry Skillnet enables low cost access to high quality training that is relevant to your business. The training network will assist your company to overcome barriers that may be preventing it from reaching its potential through delivering state of the art training locally for employees at all levels in your organisation.
BENEFITS OF NETWORKING
Since 1999, Skillnets has facilitated over 60,000 Irish enterprises, in over 350 networks to improve the range, scope and quality of training and allowed over 275,000 employees to upskill and meet their work related training needs.
The Skillnets experience has shown that there are major benefits from participating in the training network including:
- Sharing best practice with other members
- Developing new business opportunities
- Enabling greater buying power for specialised training
- Enabling greater buying power for specialised training
- Access to a greater range of relevant training topics
- Stimulates collaboration between members with innovation and R&D
- Companies receive targeted training suited to their specific needs
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