Technical Writing Course - Online

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Access the new "Technical Writing Course Essentials" webinar and learn the top five do's and don'ts of writing an instruction manual - and receive a 10% off discount!

You're smart. You may be brilliant, but if you can't communicate what's in your head to others you may run into roadblocks and dead ends.

That's why technical writing has become one of OSU's most popular courses.

Now the semester-long course is available to you in a condensed and accelerated format.

This technical writing course will give you an overview of the genre and prepare you to produce instructive, informational, and persuasive documents based on well-defined and achievable outcomes. Technical documents are precise, concise, organized, and based on complex information.

This course will teach you processes for analyzing writing contexts and help you produce effective, clean, and reader-centered documents in an efficient manner. The purpose and target audience of a document determines the style that an author chooses. In this course, you will evaluate these stylistic choices and carefully consider document layout, vocabulary, sentence and paragraph structure, and visuals, among other factors.

Upon completion, you will gain an understanding and knowledge of many technical writing documents, including reports, feasibility studies, proposals, and specifications.

You will also learn:

"Rich provided personalized feedback on each assignment, which I found invaluable. A lot of his comments and suggestions were on areas where I was a little unsure of my approach, and his insights on what would be best for the end-user were extremely helpful for me and my development as a technical writer."

-Christy Carovillano, Conservation Program Assistant with Metro Parks and Nature in Portland, OR

As a bonus, you'll get expert feedback on your chosen writing project. So if you have a tech startup proposal, for example, you can have it reviewed and critiqued before you submit to investors.

If you'd like to elevate your writing and all the benefits that come from writing advanced technical documents, you can get started right here.