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Using DITA Creatively to Develop Training Material
When we developed our Technical Writing Skills training course, we created the course materials using the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA), to test its usefulness for small content production projects. DITA is an open XML standard for creating,...
Creating Effective Work Instructions: Kyle Shropshire’s “The Error Free Workplace”
Kyle Shropshire’s The Error Free Workplace explores the significance of well-written instructions and highlights how well-written instructions can contribute to an error free workplace. If you want to reduce workplace errors, this book explains how technical writing...
Innovating Technical Communication Education
A few years ago, TWi collaborated with Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) and other organisations to develop the syllabus for a new postgraduate technical communication program in Information Design and Development. This post tells the story of how it came about. [box...
Punctuation for Professionals: Delivering Technical Writing Training
How do you teach grammar and punctuation to experienced technical professionals without seeming patronising? To follow that: how do you condense the skills and knowledge needed for technical communication into a single day of training? A version of this post was...
Reflections on the European Academic Colloquium 2018
The European Academic Colloquium (EAC) is an annual event that focuses on scientific content with respect to technical communication. This year's event took place on April 26th and 27th at the University of Limerick. The topic of EAC 2018 was “21st Century Skills for...