Technical Writing Course Online or Onsite in Portland

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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 this technical writing course has become one of OSU's most popular programs.

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

In Oregon, technical writers earn an annual average salary of over $78,000.

This technical writing course will 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.

The purpose and target audience of each document determine the style that an author chooses, including document layout, vocabulary, sentence and paragraph structure, and visuals, among other factors. To this end, this course will teach processes for analyzing writing contexts and producing effective, clean, and reader-centered documents in an efficient manner.

Upon completion, you will gain an understanding and knowledge of genres such as reports, feasibility studies, proposals, and specifications.

You will also learn:

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