Advanced Technical Writing
Earn college credit with Advanced Technical Writing—a self-paced online course focused on clear, professional writing for technical and business settings. Learn audience-focused structure, reports, proposals, instructions, and editing for clarity and tone. Complete short lessons, quizzes, and assignments on your schedule, then finish with a proctored final exam, with transcript options for transfer credit.
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Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: discuss the impact of technical communication; tailor technical messages; navigate ethical and legal frameworks; enhance research skills; design user-friendly technical documents; produce accessible technical content; and develop technical documents that are not only rich in information but also designed with the user's experience in mind, ensuring ease of navigation, readability, and effective communication of complex concepts.
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: discuss the impact of technical communication; tailor technical messages; navigate ethical and legal frameworks; enhance research skills; design user-friendly technical documents; produce accessible technical content; and develop technical documents that are not only rich in information but also designed with the user's experience in mind, ensuring ease of navigation, readability, and effective communication of complex concepts.
Major Course Topics
Major topics include essentials of technical writing; strategies for pre-writing in technical documents; crafting technical documents; mastery in technical editing and rewriting; focused user-centric technical writing; effective technical writing instruction; comprehensive manual writing techniques; development of informal technical reports; composition of formal technical reports; crafting business reports and proposals; strategic approaches to proposal writing; advanced techniques in technical correspondence; business correspondence in technical writing; and mastering resumes and cover letters.