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Since 2002, I have delivered courses at the University of Alberta, Faculty of Extension. Due to the pandemic, courses were offered online and were successfully received by students.


In 2022, the University made the decision to no longer offer general interest courses through the Faculty of Extension. As a result, I now offer the courses directly from Meridian Communications Inc. Explore the course offerings and I hope to see you in class very soon.

Technical Writing: Procedures and Manuals


Have you been asked to write a set of pro­ce­dures, a man­u­al, or a user’s guide? Does this task seem daunt­ing because you don’t con­sid­er your­self a tech­ni­cal writer? This course is intend­ed for any­one who must write pro­ce­dures or man­u­als for oth­ers, or for any­one explor­ing the tech­ni­cal writ­ing pro­fes­sion. Exam­ine the tasks, process­es and tech­niques for writ­ing instruc­tions and guides that are use­ful and easy to read. Learn how to con­duct ​“audi­ence analy­sis” and how to use this analy­sis to guide your writ­ing. Exper­i­ment with doc­u­ment design and appre­ci­ate how design plays an impor­tant role in the writ­ing process. Learn how to esti­mate the cost and sched­ule for pro­duc­ing your guides. Cre­ate an out­line for a guide, write pro­ce­dures and con­duct feed­back test­ing to improve the usabil­i­ty of your guide. This course pro­vides an overview of tech­ni­cal writ­ing process­es and prac­ti­cal hands-on exer­cis­es; no tech­ni­cal writ­ing expe­ri­ence is required.


NEXT COURSE SCHEDULE

October 3-4, 2022

9am to 4 pm each day

online class via Zoom

$325 plus GST



Writing Clearly in the Workplace


Your job descrip­tion may not say ​“writer”, but some­how you spend a large part of your day writ­ing mem­os, let­ters, and pro­pos­als. The biggest prob­lem in work­place writ­ing is not nec­es­sar­i­ly bad gram­mar, but too many words per thought. Wordy writ­ing lacks clar­i­ty. Learn­ing to avoid cer­tain gram­mat­i­cal con­struc­tions will help you process prose that makes your mean­ing crys­tal clear. This work­shop will focus on George Orwell’s six rules of good writ­ing and the nec­es­sary gram­mat­i­cal infor­ma­tion to put them into prac­tice. Ample time will be devot­ed to in-class rein­force­ment exercises.


NEXT COURSE SCHEDULE

November 1-2, 2022

9am to 4 pm each day

online class via Zoom

$325 plus GST



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Meridian Communications Inc., 2560 Crown Crest Drive, West Kelowna, BC V4T 3N3

Phone: 250-215-9612 | Email: awiens@meridiancom.ca


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