Training and certification
We provide training and certification programs for technical writers, digital content specialists and linguists.
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Real-world skills certification.
Our training is designed to provide effective, real-world, skills certification for both the participants and employers. We currently offer the following courses which take place online and at our training premises.
Course 01
Training for technical writers
Who is this training course for? Technical writers who are already working for a company or as a freelance and wish to have a certification to prove their professional competence, students who are planning to enter the discipline, other linguists who are interested to add technical writing to their skills or change their career path.
This course covers the following topics:
- Exploring and understanding the role that technical writers play
- Identifying the skills that technical writers are expected to possess
- Appraisal and use of the most popular technical documentation tools and software
- The creation and management of online documentation
- XML and DITA
- XSLT
- Communicating with engineers and other stakeholders
- Incorporating feedback
- Communicating with editors and reviewers
- Standardized and structured documentation
- Writing rules and the creation of a style guide
- The use of style guides
- Correct and consistent usage of terms, abbreviations and acronyms
- Design and interface elements
- Modular design and variant management
- Wiki authoring
- Knowledge management
- Collaborative writing environments
- Good writing practice
Course 02
Training for technical editors
Who is this training course for? Technical editors who are already working for a company or as a freelance and wish to have a certification to prove their professional competence, students who are planning to enter the discipline, translators or other linguists who are interested to add technical editing to their skills or change their career path.
This course covers the following topics:
- Exploring and understanding the role that technical editors play
- Identifying the skills that technical editors are expected to possess
- Appraisal and use of the most popular editing tools and software
- Finding, choosing and working with standard, company and departmental style guides
- Using Internet search and other resources of information
- Communicating with authors and other stakeholders
- Writing queries and creating style sheets
- Working with proofreader marks
- Working with track changes in MS Word
- Working with PDF markup
- Working with collaborative writing environments
- Examining good writing practice
- How to check for problems of logic and coherence in a text
- Correcting errors of tense and mistakes of grammar, spelling and punctuation
How it works
Online modules, then a final exam.
The training courses consist of web modules using video and online testing followed by a final classroom session where the participant sits a supervised multiple choice examination. Upon successful completion of the course and examination, the participant will be issued a certificate and entered into the certification database.
Interested in a course?
For more information on a particular course, availability and pricing, please email us.