ASTC (Vic) courses
Technical writing and communication courses
Australian courses
This list simply represents courses that we have been made aware of. Some will be better than others and some will be more appropriate to our industry than others. In no way should the listing of a course on this page be seen as an endorsement by the ASTC (Vic).
Victoria
- Technical Writing Skills by Jill Nicholson. Postponed to date TBA.
This one-day course is suitable for anyone from new technical writers starting off in the field to experienced writers who need a refresher. It is also particularly good for those who may notbe technical writers but need to write reports and specifications, for example Software and IT Engineers.
'10 Things You Should Know about Editing' and '10 Things You Should Know about Indexing' by Jill Nicholson. Postponed to date TBA. Following up the Introduction to Technical Writing, these two half-day courses in Editing and Indexing will provide some additional information for you to become a successful technical writer. Please note, these half day courses can be taken separately or together.
- Diploma of Arts (Professional Writing and Editing) at Holmsglen TAFE or RMIT.
- Graduate Diploma in Editing and Publishing at RMIT.
South Australia
Queensland
- Graduate Certificate of Sciences Communication at Central Queensland University.
Private courses
- Acumentum.
- Information Mapping, Tactics Consulting.
- The Hiser Group.
Overseas courses
- Graduate Diploma of Information Design (Internet-based) at Christchurch Polytechnic, New Zealand.
- Online Award in General Business Studies With a Concentration in Technical Communication at University of California, Los Angeles.
- The College of Technical Authorship.
- Engineering Writing Centre at University of Toronto.
- Writing and research consultants.
- The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand, Kuratini Tuwhera.