Writing Better Technical Reports

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Glenn Weadock

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1. Course Overview

1. Course Overview.mp4

01:35

2. Know Your Audience

1. Course Introduction.mp4

01:46

2. Technical Level.mp4

02:46

3. Circumstances of Use.mp4

04:00

4. Level of Detail.mp4

01:47

3. Choose Your Words

1. Acronymania.mp4

02:31

2. Brevity.mp4

01:24

3. References.mp4

01:45

4. Precision (And AutoCorrect).mp4

02:11

4. Build a Good Sentence

1. Sentence Anatomy.mp4

03:28

2. Sentence Length.mp4

01:48

3. Punctuation and Grammar.mp4

05:27

5. Build a Good Paragraph

1. The Topic Sentence.mp4

03:12

2. The Development.mp4

01:41

3. Breaks and Transitions.mp4

02:25

6. Build a Good Document

1. Navigation Aids.mp4

03:47

2. References.mp4

01:36

3. Proofreading.mp4

01:38

7. Use Style to Your Advantage

1. Tone.mp4

03:44

2. Conciseness.mp4

01:51

3. Parallelism.mp4

01:02

8. Avoid Ambiguity

1. Pronouns and Antecedents.mp4

02:38

2. Assumptions.mp4

01:15

3. Report Identification.mp4

02:14

9. Manage Jargon

1. Effects of Jargon.mp4

02:01

2. Define or Avoid.mp4

02:25

10. Special Concerns for e-docs

1. e-Document Formats.mp4

03:52

2. Design Issues.mp4

02:18

Description

Technical reports require attention to sentence, paragraph, and document structure. They also demand careful word choice, avoidance of ambiguity, proper treatment of jargon, and awareness of style issues. This course shows how to be a better writer.

What You'll Learn?

Technical professionals must occasionally write technical reports. Although there is no one right method for doing so, certain techniques and methods usually improve the results. In this course, Writing Better Technical Reports, you'll be encapsulated with a wide-ranging discussion of structure and style into successfully writing technical reports. First, you'll learn many of the more common writing mistakes and discover techniques for avoiding them. Next, you'll delve into a reader-oriented approach that will improve your reports' reception and effectiveness. Matters of sentence, paragraph, and document structure receive consideration here, along with tone, ambiguity, and technical jargon. Additionally, you'll explore tips specific for electronic document formats. Finally, you'll cover techniques for joining paragraphs using transitions, facilitating navigation within the report, avoiding confusing or opaque references, and exorcising bad habits, such as redundant, superfluous, and imprecise verbiage. By the end of this course, you'll have a solid understanding of how to efficiently make your technical reports leaner and more readable.

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Technical Writing

Glenn Weadock

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Glenn E. Weadock (MDAA, MCAAA, MCT, MCSE, MCSA, MCITP, A+, Security+) is the president of Independent Software Inc., which he founded in 1982 after graduating from Stanford University's engineering school. ISI provides expert witness, consulting, and training services in the IT field with a focus on operating systems and networking technologies. Glenn is the author of 18 commercial books on topics such as Windows clients and servers, Microsoft certification, website design, troubleshooting, and client/server networking, for publishers including McGraw-Hill, Wiley, Sybex, and the famous Dummies series. Glenn has developed seminars and video courses for Data-Tech Institute, Global Knowledge, and O’Reilly Media; co-authored two Microsoft Official Curriculum (MOC) courses on Windows Server 2008; and has taught PC and network troubleshooting, design, and support to tens of thousands of students in the US, UK, Canada, and Southeast Asia. Glenn advised the U.S. Justice Department in the Microsoft antitrust case, and has been an expert witness in patent cases involving companies such as IBM, Amazon, Facebook, Instagram, Disney, and LendingTree. He has a Bachelor of Science in Engineering With Distinction, from Stanford University, where he was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi honor societies. In his spare time, Glenn enjoys hiking, reading, and music.

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Pluralsight, LLC is an American privately held online education company that offers a variety of video training courses for software developers, IT administrators, and creative professionals through its website. Founded in 2004 by Aaron Skonnard, Keith Brown, Fritz Onion, and Bill Williams, the company has its headquarters in Farmington, Utah. As of July 2018, it uses more than 1,400 subject-matter experts as authors, and offers more than 7,000 courses in its catalog. Since first moving its courses online in 2007, the company has expanded, developing a full enterprise platform, and adding skills assessment modules.