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Why attend this course?
Who is this course for?
What will I learn?
Topics covered
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Our expertise
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This online training course teaches the basic skills in single sourcing and writing content for reuse.
The ten learning modules in this course contain videos of the trainer with supporting slides and images. The course includes exercises for the delegates to complete and review.
Why attend this course?
This course is recommended by the Australian Society for Technical Communication.
Who is this course for?
If you need a solid understanding of the basics of single sourcing and content reuse, this affordable training course is ideal for you.
What will I learn?
This online training course teaches the basic skills in single sourcing and writing content for reuse.
Topics covered
Introduction
Single Sourcing definitions
- What is single sourcing?
Why single source?
When single sourcing might be a bad idea
Writing for re-use
- Single sourcing across documents
- Single sourcing across different media (mobile, paper etc)
- Creating variations of the same document
- The writing process
Structured v unstructured writing
Planning and designing single sourced content
- Authoring Guidelines and Style Guides
- Defining information types, content types, metadata dimensions
- Content modelling and mapping
- Mapping to output type
- Publishing single sourced content
Single sourcing software
Summary
Delivery format
The course comprises ten modules in total, which you can complete at your own pace. The course will take delegates approximately 1/2 to 1 day to complete.
The course modules are delivered via the Web in small, manageable modules, totalling 81 minutes. With the exercises, each delegate will need to allocate around four to seven hours to complete the course.
The exercises and course notes are provided as PDFs and a Word document.
Our expertise
As well as teaching technical communication, we also create end-user documentation, Help and UI text for clients. This means every course is based on practical experience of technical writing in today’s environment. The techniques you’ll learn on this course are the same ones used by our projects team.
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