ASTC (Vic) courses
Technical Writing and Documenting, Jill Nicholson
June 2-3, Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
Effective communications require quality content, language, format, and more. The entire point of communications is to disseminate information; this is where written content comes in. To present the appropriate content, it is imperative to understand one's audience and writing purpose. If a document does not communicate the information that the writer intends and what he or she wants the reader to understand, then the communication is meaningless.
The writer has self-interest in making the extra effort: looking credible is as important as being credible and getting results in business. Respect and credibility of the writer/speaker are integral to effective communications. Readers will not trust the information from an author if they do not believe that author is a valuable source of information or the purveyor of worthwhile ideas. Furthermore, being respected is essential to being persuasive, a key ingredient in business.
Jill Nicholson is an experienced technical and business communicator who lectured for many years at the University of Technology, Sydney. She now presents technical and business communication courses to Government Departments and to the private sector in Australia, New Zealand, the USA, and Singapore and writes and edits a variety of documents for business clients.
Jill has presented courses at the University of California at Santa Clara, the Colorado School of Mines, the University of Western Sydney, Ngee Ann Polytechnic in Singapore, and the University of Technology, Sydney. She also presents workshops at the Society for Technical Communication (USA), and the ASTC (NSW) annual conferences.
To apply for the course please complete and return the registration form by email, or by mail to: ASTC Vic, 8 Meribah Court, Frankston, Victoria, 3199.
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
- Graduate Certificate/Graduate Diploma in Technical Communication at Swinburne University.
- Diploma of Arts (Professional Writing and Editing) at Holmsglen TAFE or RMIT.
- Graduate Diploma in Editing and Publishing at RMIT.
Applications for Swinburne's postgraduate courses in Technical Communications in 2008 close on 5 February 2008.
The four subjects of the Graduate Certificate, and the first four subjects of the eight-subject Graduate Diploma, are offered online. The second four subjects of the Graduate Diploma are offered part-time in the evening at Swinburne's Hawthorn campus in Melbourne.
First semester begins on 3 March 2008.
For details go to the Swinburne Technical Communications home page.
For further information, please contact postgrad@swin.edu.au
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.