WriteLessons - Online technical communication courses

Cherryleaf

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Description

  • Type

    Training

  • Level

    Intermediate

  • Methodology

    Online

  • Duration

    3 Months

  • Start date

    Different dates available

  • Delivery of study materials

    Yes

WriteLessons, from Cherryleaf, provides access to a range of courses in technical communication under a monthly subscription plan.

You have access to all of the courses in the collection, and you can cancel your subscription at any time. We’ll be adding extra courses to this collection.

Certificates (if you need them to meet Continuing Professional Development requirements) are available on request.
You can take any or all of these online courses:

Managing Technical Documentation Projects
Planning and Implementing a Content Strategy Project
Single Sourcing and Content Reuse
Revising and Editing Content
DITA Fundamentals
Developing API documentation
Markdown – Friend or Foe
Writing and Designing Embedded Help
Revising and Editing Content

Facilities

Location

Start date

Online

Start date

Different dates availableEnrolment now open

About this course

People involved in creating end user documentation and online Help

f you want to become a Junior, Certified Member or Certified Fellow of the technical communicators’ national professional body - the Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators (ISTC) - Cherryleaf’s training courses can help. 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) , and Cherryleaf’s courses can help demonstrate you are extending and updating your skills.

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Subjects

  • Technical documentation
  • Writing
  • Editing and correction
  • Planning
  • Procedures
  • Help desk system management
  • XML training
  • Technical mechanical documentation
  • Software documentation
  • Software acceptance testing

Teachers and trainers (1)

Ellis Pratt

Ellis Pratt

Director

Ellis is a Consulting Technical Communicator and Director at Cherryleaf. He has been working in the field of documentation since the early 1990s. He has a BA in Business Studies, and he is a Member of the Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators, an Associate of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, and an Affiliate of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Since September 2014, Ellis has been on the Management Council for the Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators, with responsibility for marketing.

Course programme

You can take any or all of these online courses:

  • Managing Technical Documentation Projects
    • Planning user documentation in an Agile environment
    • What is Technical Documentation?
    • Making the Business Case for Technical Documentation
    • Estimating Time Budgets for Documentation Projects
    • Technical Documentation Standards
    • Metrics in Technical Documentation
    • Developing User Documentation in an Agile Environment
  • Planning and Implementing a Content Strategy Project
    • This is for people planning and implementing a content strategy project. This can be for a website as well as for technical documentation.
  • Single Sourcing and Content Reuse
    • This online training course teaches the basic skills in single sourcing and writing content for reuse.
    • This course is for you if you want to re-use, re-publish and re-purpose more content, and need to understand single sourcing and plan a single sourcing migration project.
    • See Single sourcing and content reuse training course for more information.
  • Revising and Editing Content
    • Currently available as a beta release.
    • Editing
    • Revising content
    • Revising tools
    • Editing and revising exercises
    • Getting your content reviewed
    • The relationship between editors and writers
  • DITA Fundamentals
    • This course is for people both new to DITA and already using DITA.
    • See DITA fundamentals for more information.
  • Developing API documentation
    • Primarily aimed at REST APIs, this training course will help you to organise, write, plan and control your API documentation.
    • See Documenting APIs training course – writing and managing for more information.
  • Markdown – Friend or Foe
    • A presentation on the pros and cons of Markdown.
  • Writing and Designing Embedded Help
    • This course helps UX developers and technical communicators better understand how to create and write UI Help text and embedded Help.
    • See Writing UI Embedded Help text training course for more information
  • Editing and Revising​ Content

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