Online Technical Writing

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Lessons
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Applications of Technical Writing
Lesson 1: Business Correspondence and Resumes
Lesson 2: Technical Reports: Structure and Process
Lesson 3: Types of Technical Reports: An Overview
Lesson 4: Business plans
Lesson 5: Proposals
Lesson 6: Progress Reports
Lesson 7: Instructions
Lesson 8: User Guides
Lesson 9: Organizational Policies and Procedures
Lesson 10: Recommendation and Feasibility Reports
Lesson 11: Abstracts, introductions, and conclusions
Lesson 12: Oral presentations

 

Document Design
Lesson 13: Book design overview
Lesson 14: Page design overview
Lesson 15: Headings
Lesson 16: Lists
Lesson 17: Special notices
Lesson 18: Graphics and tables
Lesson 19: Report format and final packaging
Lesson 20: Highlighting and emphasis

 

Processes and Guidelines

Lesson 21: Writing process: from audience to rough draft
Lesson 22: Audience analysis
Lesson 23: Power-revision techniques
Lesson 24: Libraries, documentation, cross-referencing
Lesson 25: Basic patterns and elements of the sentence
Lesson 26: Common grammar, usage, punctuation problems
Lesson 27: Common spelling problems
Lesson 28: Strategies for peer-reviewing and team-writing
Lesson 29: Information structures

About This Course

The free, online text for this course is used by students in online technical-communication courses worldwide as well as the online version of  Introduction to Technical Communication, taught by David A. McMurrey, at Austin Community College (ACC) in Austin, Texas USA.