This class helps you acquire essential editing techniques for every form of technical writing including reports and manuals. We encourage you to also take Technical Writing: Proofreading Techniques. This course supports Plain Talk principles.

Performance Objectives: Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:

• Edit to keep the writing powerful and the message clear.
• Ensure key technical ideas appear up front for your customer.
• Edit documents to ensure sentences provide parallel importance, focus on emphasis, and remove wordiness.
• Edit documents to ensure sentences are clutter-free.
• Edit for acceptable tone when having to say no.
• Edit for readability with Plain Talk in mind.

Intended Audience: Anyone who edits technical documents.