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Post Graduate Diploma Course in Technical Writing

This course is designed to suite people who are already into Technical Writing and want to enhance/fine tune their skills and acquire a cutting edge over others. Those who have already completed the Diploma Course in Technical Writing from KBuffer and those who are looking at Career options as a Professional Technical Writer can also take this. In short, those who have a mission and a vision in pursuit are suggested this course.

Total duration of the course: 150 Hours

Regular Schedule: 1 hour daily – 5 days a week – Monday through Friday—6 Months

Fast Track:2 hours daily – 5 days a week – Monday through Friday—3 Months

Weekend Batch: 6 Hours every week – Saturdays and Sundays—6 Months

Course Curriculum

  • Introduction to the Writing Process

  • Introduction to Technical Writing

  • DDLC

  • Types of Technical Writing

    • Procedural Writing

    • Paragraph Writing

    • Report Writing

    • Writing for Electronic Media

  • Microsoft Manual of Style for Technical Publication

    • General Topics

    • Content Formatting and Layout

    • Global Content

    • Content for Software Developers

    • Web Content

    • Grammatical Elements

    • Punctuation

    • List of Abbreviations and Acronyms

  • Various Types of Documents Created by Technical Writers

  1. Proposal

  2. User Guide

  3. White Paper

  4. Fact Sheets

  • Publishing Concepts

Various publishing concepts including:

  1. Variable Headers and Footers

  2. Using Em Dash, En Dash, and so on

  3. Using White Space

  4. Color Theory

  5. Font Theory

  6. Printing Basics

Concepts of Technical Writing

  • Introduction to Structured Authoring

  • DITA — Theory and Practice

  • XML — Taking Documentation to next level

Industry Standard Tools

  • Microsoft Word (Advanced Publishing Features)

  • Microsoft Visio (Diagramming Tool)

  • Adobe Technical Communication Suite which includes:

    • FrameMaker (including Structured Authoring)

    • RoboHelp (including latest Help formats)

    • Captivate

    • Photoshop

    • Acrobat

  • Adobe InDesign

  • SnagIT from Techsmith

Regular Assignments

Two Tests

Final Exam

Project

 

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