Workshops/Seminars
Tune Up Your Engineers' Writing Skills
The ability to write correctly, concisely and clearly is a “must-have” skill for many engineers. Every detailed technical study concludes with a written report. Similarly, every bid for new business involves an elaborate techno-commercial proposal. And every complex process or equipment needs a written procedure.
Thorough, clear and concise reports, proposals and procedures send a strong message of superior quality to everyone, including customers. Besides quality, when engineers write well, they also enhance their company’s productivity and corporate image.
What about your engineers? Would it help them to do a better job if they sharpened their writing skills?
Tune Up Your Engineers’ Writing Skills is a 2-day training workshop, especially designed for engineers to impart best practices in writing, and also the skills to produce high-quality technical reports, proposals and procedures. As a hands-on, interactive workshop, it will be conducted by Atul Mathur who is a postgraduate engineer with 14 years of experience in the engineering industry, an experienced technical writer and a certified trainer.
Workshop outline - DAY 1
Smooth and efficient writing process
- Basic writing process: Plan, write and revise
- Building blocks of writing: Paragraphs
- Eight common structures of written content
Principles of good writing
Remove unnecessary words and phrases
-Clutter words
-Needless qualifiers
-Redundant expressions
Simplify
-Use simple and familiar words
-Write short sentences
-Minimise jargons
Be clear and direct
-Use active voice
-Be specific, definite and concrete
-Use strong verbs
Write fluent sentences
Technical reports – Part 1
Qualities of a good technical report
Structure of a technical report
-Three layers of information
Process of writing a technical report
-Three sub-processes
-Ten steps from start to finish
How to write executive summary, introduction, conclusion and recommendations
Workshop outline - DAY 2
Technical reports – Part 2
How to make technical reports visually impressive
Examples of different types of technical reports
Winning proposals
Types of proposals
Format and different parts of a proposal
Eight-step process of developing a proposal
Common mistakes in proposals
Strategies for writing a winning proposal
Clear procedures and instructions
Qualities of a good procedure
General structure and key parts
Process of writing procedures
Best practices for writing good procedures
Key Learning Outcomes
By the end of this programme, you should be able to:
>>use a three-step writing process to write efficiently and smoothly
>>apply the principles of good writing to all documents
>>write high-quality technical reports following a systematic process
>>write winning proposals that help to bring more business to your company
>>write clear procedures
Features
- Learning by doing: Includes interesting writing exercises
- Interactive and collaborative: Workshop design enables people to freely share their experiences and ideas, and learn from one another
- Practical & relevant: Workshop delivered by an engineer for engineers with a clear goal of “learning to apply”
Duration: Two full day sessions (8:30 am - 5:30 pm)
Target audience: Engineers who write technical documents like reports, proposals and procedures. Applicable to construction, manufacturing, oil and gas, chemical, pharmaceutical and hi-tech industries.
Contact: If you wish to organise the above workshop for your organisation or need more information, contact Atul Mathur
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