Business and Technical Writing for Engineers and Technical Professionals
Summary
Rapidly organize what you have to say. Quickly compose clear and concise messages that drive action. Confidently express your ideas, while avoiding misunderstanding. Save time and achieve results when writing reports, manuals, technical documents, letters, and email.
How You Will Benefit
- Communicate your ideas clearly and confidently
- Save time organizing your ideas
- Rapidly draft, revise, and proof your writing
- Quickly spot grammatical errors
- Overcome writer’s block
- Create patterns to let your ideas flow
- Avoid hurting feelings, inflaming anger, or fostering hostility
- Create positive impressions
- Use Microsoft Word or other word processing software more efficiently
- Make the best use of spell checking and grammar checking applications
- Use dictation and voice recognition software to accelerate your thinking and writing
- Use text reading software to dramatically improve your proofing skills
What You Will Learn
- The science and philosophy of written communication
- How the human mind reads words and sentences to construct thoughts and images
- How to guide the cognitive activity of your readers
- When to write and when not to write
- Placing yourself in your reader’s frame of mind
- The 7 steps to effective writing
- Methods to assess your audience
- How to determine your purpose
- Skills to limit your scope
- The importance of collecting your resources
- Hints on how to find your theme
- Ways to brainstorm your message
- The importance of order
- How to draft quickly
- Why writing can change your thinking
- Steps to tune up your language
- Techniques to proof your document
- How to rapidly brainstorm your topic
- Common grammar errors and how to avoid them
- Language usage: how to say what, when, under what circumstances
- Making the most of your spell checker and grammar checker
- Using Google to check spelling
- Understanding readability indexes
- Dictating
- Using voice recognition software
- Using text reading software
- The 5 attributes of good writing
- The importance of active verbs
- How to subjugate details
- How to avoid categorical writing
- Techniques for making your writing more analytical
- Ways to avoid abstractions
- Methods to prune your language
- Writing for clarity
- Writing with life and spirit
- The power of simple words, brief sentences, and short paragraphs
- Making a call for action
Course Format
The Technical Writing seminar will include instructor led training and many student exercises. Students will make extensive use of laptop software tools to improve the quality of their writing.
Who Should Attend
Engineers, technical professionals, and managers seeking to rapidly and effectively improve their business communications. Professionals seeking a hands-on workshop to learn how to write faster and more effectively. Engineering professionals seeking to improve their credibility and enhance their company’s profitability.
Schedule
Contact us about the next Business Writing course
Accelerated Learning
Towering Skills combines a full suite of modern learning tools to accelerate your learning. We present the material using visual, audio, and kinesthetic elements so you see, hear, and experience the ideas and concepts. Your teacher will use the Socratic method, problem solving, simulations, role playing, debriefings, storytelling, music, ritual, and more to convey the material.
You will enjoy the energy, knowledge, and wit of our instructor. He possesses the towering command of business writing and the ability to personalize the instruction to fit your needs.
This course includes a pre-class and post-class assessment. You also will receive free access to on-line resources that support your application of the material, when you return to your office or jobsite.
What People Say about This Instructor
"Effective instructor."
—— Senior engineering manager
"Writes well and quickly. Thinks quickly. Broad understanding of
material."
—— Engineering director
"Very good project engineer. Possesses ... perhaps the greatest gift for putting ideas down in
writing of anyone I have worked with."
—— Chris Hartman, retired VP for Parsons Corporation, California
Instructor
Charles Maxwell has taught this material for more than 25 years. He has written a large volume and variety of business and technical material while working as an engineer and engineering manager. His 30-year career includes work in operations, maintenance, research and development, business development, quality management, project management, and organizational development. He presents high-energy, entertaining courses that provide the leading-edge techniques and tips that you can immediately apply to your work.
Registration
Contact us about the next Business Writing course