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Course Title: Certificate Course in Technical Writing - Crash Course 
Course Code: CTW
Eligibility: Any Graduate
Duration: 15Days
Timings: 10.00-12.00 PM, 02.00-04.00 PM
04.00-06.00 PM, 07.00 - 9.00 PM, Weekend special batches (Saturdays & Sundays)
Software Development Life Cycle
- Software Development Life Cycle
- How Software is developed, tested, maintained and retired
- How products are installed, configured, customized and deployed
- Relating software product features and business benefits
- Working with programmers and testers
- Understanding software requirement specifications
- Analyzing product architecture
- Web everywhere
- Documentation development life cycle
- Types of documents associated with software products
- Different types of software and what they do
Technical Writing -DDLC
- What is Technical Writing ?
- Role of a Technical writer
- Principles of Technical Writing, Documentation deliverables
- Printed documentation and Online Help Systems
- Working with images and illustrations
Documentation Process
- Understanding Audience/Readers
- Collecting and Organizing information
- Drafting information verbally and visually
- Producing Information
Technical Writing Process
- Document development process
- Estimating Technical Documentation
- Documentation Planning
- Selection of Tools
- Information Architecture
- Templates and Page design
- Audience Profiling
- Task Analysis
- Content Development
- Elements of Style
- Technical Reviews
- Editorial Reviews
- Formatting and pagination
- Document Conversions
- Content Publishing
- Quality Control
- Content Maintenance
Grammar and Editing
- English Grammar
- Punctuation and Mechanics
- MS Style Guides & Proof Reading
Technical Writing Software Tools
- Microsoft Word
- Macromedia RoboHelp
- Adobe FrameMaker
- Snag IT
- Ms Visio
- PowerPoint
- PhotoShop
Microsoft Word
- About Microsoft word, Introduction, Features
- Starting the Application, Accessibility
- Formatting Text, Font and Paragraph settings, Bullets and Numbering
- Cross-references, Borders and Shading, Styles and Formatting, Template Creation
- Working with Table, Working with Bookmark, Working with Hyperlink
- Creating Sections, Generating Table of Contents, Generating Table of Figures, Generating Index
- Header and Footer,Working with Reviewing toolbar, Toolbars,Footnote and Endnote
- Protecting the Document, Shortcuts, Autotext and AutoCorrect, Watermarks/Columns/Change Case
Macromedia RoboHelp - Help Authoring Tool
- About Online Help, Planning an Online Help, Understanding RoboHelp Interface
- Creating your First Help project, Working with Topics & Folders, Working with TOC, Index, & Glossary
- Generating Output, About Types of Layouts, Applying Template and Style Sheet
- Controlling CHM Window and Skins, Working with Links, Pop-ups, Triggers, and Drop-downs
- Working with Graphics and Text boxes, Creating Related Topics, See Also and Keyword Link
- Playing with Marquee, Triggers, and Splash Screen, Creating Dropdowns, Expanding, Hyperlinks and Popups
- Changing the primary layout, Tools in RoboHelp Html, Creating and Working with Tables
- Creating Manually/Automatically Multiple TOCs, Indexes, and Glossaries
- Creating and Displaying Browse Sequence, Single Sourcing - Conditional Build Tags and Batch Generation
- Creating Context-sensitive Help, Importing Files & Skins, and Merging CHM
- Understanding the Project Source Folder and Files, Generating Reports.
Adobe FrameMaker
- Introduction, Usage of FrameMaker, FrameMaker v/s MS Word
- Getting Started, Accessibility, Creating/Importing Documents, Saving New File Formats
- Basic Text Formatting, Working with Tags, Working with Tables, Tools Pallete, Drawing Tools
- Working with Paragraph and Character Designers
- Working with Frames, Anchore Frames and Alignments,
- Working with Body, Master and Reference Pages, Page Designing and Defining Variables
- Hyperlink, Cross Reference, Pop-Ups and Image Mapping,
- Generating Table of Contents, Index and Glossary,Creating Books, Conditional Text and references
- Document Conversions
Snag IT – Image Capturing Tool
- About Snag IT
- Introduction
- Features
- Starting the application, Image Formats, Exploring the Program Window
- Capture Profile, Image Capturing Modes, Batch Convert Images, Creating WebPages
- Creating simple Demos
- Companion Applications
- Snag IT Editor
- Snag IT Studio
- Catalog Browser
MS- Visio - Image Drawing Tool
- Introduction to MS- Visio, Using various technology images,
- Creating DFD’s and Architectural Diagrams, Synchronization of images,
- Creating different file formats, Special Merits, Installation sequence, Types of shapes
- Behaviour of shapes, How to Get shapes, Templates stenci, Connection shapes, Staking shapes
- Group/ Ungroup, Text Adding, Data Linking, Data Graphics, Auto Linking, Hyper Linking
- Save type – formats, Importing into Word
PowerPoint- Presentation Tool
- Importance of Presentations, Saving Powerpoint, Working on Slide Master
- Applying Design Templates, Custom Animation and slide transition effects,
- Action buttons and hyperlinks, Slide layouts, Movies and Sounds, Insert & edit clip art
- Create a slide background using a picture, Customize graphical bullets
- Insert and format a table into a slide, Add an animation scheme to selected slides
- Rearrange slides, Customize slide backgrounds and templates, SlideShows
Photoshop-Image Editing Tool
- Introduction to Photoshop, Cropping images and editing
- Using advanced tools for creating architectural diagrams, Explore the Photoshop Environment
- Using the File Browser , Basic Photo Corrections, Working with Selections
- Basic flow mode for editing images using Photoshop, Retouching and Repairing
- Work with selections, Creating layers, Creating a Mask and Channels
- Correcting and Enhancing, Slice and Link an Image, Creating Rollovers, Animate GIF Images
- Painting and Editing, Basic Pen Tool Techniques
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