Learn the essentials of technical writing, technical reports, and professional communication with this online course. This free online technical writing course will teach you the basics of technical writing and communication. You will study the main conventions and characteristics of technical writing, the complexity and iterative nature of a writing process, and the importance of knowing your audience and writing specifically to meet their needs. You will also learn how to apply strategies to enhance clarity and readability, and more.
| Course Type | Online Learning |
| Course Qualification | CPD Certificate |
| Course Duration | 1.5-3 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | In This Free Course, You Will Learn How To • Define what technical writing is, why it’s important, and what it looks like • Recognize the main conventions and characteristics of technical writing • Identify how to use rhetoric appeals in a professional context and avoid logical fallacies • Recognize how to effectively integrate headings, figures and tables, and lists in written communications • Define basic terms related to conducting and disseminating various types of research • Outline how to determine the reliability, authority, and relevance of research sources in a professional context • Identify the most common types of documents used in technical communications • Outline how to create technical descriptions and write instruction manuals • Recognize how to create the appropriate format, structure and content for different types of professional documents |
| Course Code | 1953 |
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