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Intermediate/Advanced Technical Communication Course

Welcome

Welcome

Review of technical writing fundamentals

Review of the fundamentals of technical writing (20:33)

Single Sourcing and Content Reuse

Read Me First
Introduction (1:41)
Definitions (11:27)
Why Single Source? (14:52)
When Single Sourcing Might be a Bad Idea (2:41)
General Approach (8:57)
Writing for Reuse (14:23)
Structured Writing (3:18)
Planning (12:28)
Publishing (5:01)
Tools (16:20)
Summary (3:07)

Revising and Editing Content

Editing - Part 1 (14:16)
Editing - Part 2 (15:25)
Revising Content (15:19)
Revising Tools (9:45)
Exercises
Getting Your Content Reviewed (10:18)
The Relationship Between Editors and Writers (9:46)
Copy of slides

Structured Writing Fundamentals

Welcome (2:35)
Definitions (5:24)
What is structured writing? (2:23)
Why do we need structured writing? (2:52)
Non-automated structured writing (23:47)
XML structured writing - introduction (13:51)
XML structured writing - standards (8:24)
DITA 1.2 - Read Me First
DITA 1.2 - Module 1 Introduction (10:52)
DITA 1.2 - Module 2 DITA Fundamentals (13:24)
DITA 1.2 - Module 3 Introduction to Topics (9:55)
DITA 1.2 - Module 4 Different Types of Topics (17:08)
DITA 1.2 - Module 5 Maps (7:04)
DITA 1.2 - Module 6 Linking (15:46)
DITA 1.2 - Module 7 Conrefs (8:36)
DITA 1. 2 - Module 8 Conditional Content (5:23)
DITA 1. 2 - Module 9 Transforming and Publishing DITA (10:11)
DITA 1. 2 - Module 10 Summary (1:23)
XML structured writing - problems (3:28)
Structured writing - Databases (27:13)
Summary (4:25)

Managing Software Documentation Projects

What is Technical Documentation? (8:57)
Making the Business Case for Technical Documentation (14:31)
The Writing Process (10:34)
Estimating Time Budgets for Documentation Projects (31:54)
Planning your content (12:17)
Technical Documentation Standards (13:20)
Metrics in Technical Documentation (30:29)

Markdown and Asciidoc

Markdown1 (37:03)
Markdown2 (17:16)
AsciiDoc (22:54)

Trends in Technical Writing

Introduction and exercises (20:33)
The traditional approach (4:05)
Why change? (11:44)
Trends - Onboarding and voice (19:33)
Trends - Pathfinder topics (4:08)
Trends - DocOps (2:35)
Trends - Analytics (7:54)
How you could make your Help topics appear at the top of the Search Engine results (25:16)
Summary (2:29)
Bonus content

UI/UX Writing

Welcome (4:53)
Definitions - What is UX and UI? (6:51)
Messaging components (8:52)
Messaging states (11:04)
How do I create UI text for an application? (11:47)
Creating inline Help (3:37)
What is the purpose of UI text? (1:51)
Standards (4:55)
Writing best practices (11:58)
What skills do I need to be a UI/UX writer? (4:15)
Planning (11:20)
Usability (6:56)
Writing for a global audience (3:18)
Final project

Technical copywriting training course

Getting Started (14:47)
Overview of marketing (72:14)
The copywriting framework (57:42)
Planning and writing multiple page copy (28:07)
Writing techniques (55:45)
Copy examples (1:13)
The content brief (5:39)
Measuring your performance (4:56)
Planning (2:21)
Troubleshooting (1:45)
Summary (2:23)
Answers

Creating screenshots and images for user guides

Introduction (2:37)
Understand the context (14:22)
Choose an appropriate visual display method (55:11)
Focus attention where you want it (10:39)
Think like a designer (32:18)
Software (72:43)
Animations (21:09)
Summary (1:59)

Creating API documentation and developer portals

Introduction (4:52)
What is an API? (23:39)
Using an API (23:28)
How APIs are created (1:24)
Authentication and accreditation (17:53)
What documentation should I write? (17:12)
The Overview section (7:04)
The Concepts section (2:16)
The Getting Started section (5:43)
The API Reference section (2:20)
Writing the API reference by hand (12:31)
Cookbooks (3:46)
Tutorial/Colab/Code labs (3:27)
One-pagers (1:23)
The Case Study section (2:21)
The FAQs/Troubleshooting section (2:08)
Cheat sheets (2:25)
Release notes (Changelog) (2:22)
Other content (3:13)
Onboarding (2:11)
Writing code samples (5:56)
Documentation - summary (1:18)
Design patterns in developer portals (14:52)
Authoring tools for API documentation (37:33)
Managing an API documentation project (17:53)
Summary (2:58)

Audio-only content

Podcast

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