This asynchronous 6-week course presents more advanced concepts to TC practitioners who may still be within their first three years in the profession. It covers topics that are beyond the scope of TechComm Fundamentals Bootcamp, and is particularly useful for people who have completed the Bootcamp course. This course covers the following topics to help you enrich and develop your TC career: managing projects, glossaries and teferences, advanced deliverables (white papers, application ... Details
When: November 21 – December 26, 2023
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This one-day certification preparatory course provides an overview of the Certified Professional Technical Communicator (CPTC) exam offered through STC and AMPG International. This course will help you prepare for the Practitioner level exam, providing an overview of the nine core competencies, and four specialization areas (project planning and analysis, visual communication, content development and organization, and writing and editing strategies) covered by the exam. Additionally, ... Details
When: November 13, 2023
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As the technical writing job market gets more competitive, seasoned and transitioning technical writers need to get through the online systems and stand out to hiring managers. This workshop covers what technical writing hiring managers expect in application materials, what to include in a resume, hands-on writing and formatting instruction, and answers to common job search questions.
When: November 2, 2023
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Technical communication is an exciting and challenging career that offers unlimited opportunity for professional development. But to succeed, it's not enough to learn a desktop publishing or Help authoring tool-you need to master the analysis process. This is a thinking person's dream career!
TechComm Fundamentals Bootcamp is the fastest, most efficient way to jump-start your career in technical communication. It covers key theory that you can immediately apply to your work, as well ... Details
When: October 26 – December 14, 2023
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This four-week certification preparatory course provides an overview of the Certified Professional Technical Communicator (CPTC) Foundation level exam offered through STC and AMPG International. This course will help you prepare for the Foundation level exam, providing a detailed review of each of the nine core competencies (project planning, project analysis, content development, organizational design, visual communication, written communication, reviewing and editing, content... Details
When: October 16 – November 6, 2023
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Learn about the principles of design that can be applied to any project you’re working on. Often, projects don’t have the budget to bring in a graphic designer, but with this course, you’ll learn how a graphic designer thinks, tools they use, and how you can apply this to your own work.
By the end of the course, you won’t be thinking just about how to make something look pretty, but how you can direct your audience’s attention to where you need them to look. This is the... Details
When: October 11 – November 15, 2023
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Are you an STC community president or treasurer? You won't want to miss this valuable meet-up with STC's Board Treasurer Bobbi Werner, and STC CEO Liz Pohland, as they answer your questions about this year's annual community budgeting process and share important banking and IRS information that you will need to know for your community. We encourage all attendees to view 2020's Community Budget webinar ahead of the meet-up https://www.cac-stc.org/resources/leadership-webinars/ and to... Details
When: October 4, 2023
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Technical editors play a key role in the production of professional documents that are clear, organized, and useful to readers. They work with a variety of different types of writing for various audiences, purposes, and environments. Technical editors' responsibilities cover a number of areas, including language, visual design, globalization, ethics, and fairness, with their primary responsiblitly being to advocate for the reader. This 6-week course will introduce the major issues... Details
When: October 2 – November 6, 2023
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This course will look at the nature of specifications from a technical communicator’s point of view: their purpose, the kinds of specifications a technical communicator is likely to encounter or be asked to write, and their interaction with technical documents.
Objectives:
• Understand what specifications do and don’t do
• Examine their relationship to customer-facing technical publications
• Learn about the different types of specifications and how to write... Details
When: September 25 – October 2, 2023
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