“Professional Technical Writing” Course Wins STC Award!

By Ugur Akinci

We are proud and honored to receive STC (Society for Technical Communication) Alliance Competition’s “Merit Award” for the “Professional Technical Writing” Course.

This year’s competition was tough since the STC Alliance consists of STC’s Atlanta, New England, New York, Philadelphia, Rochester, South-Central Texas, and Washington DC-Baltimore chapters. The judges were one of the most experienced veterans of the technical communications industry. We’d like to extend them our gratitude for considering this course worthy of an award.

We also thank all our students for their patronage, participation, and feedback that over the years made this best-seller Udemy course a dependable and top-rated resource for those who would like to launch a new career in technical writing and communications.

What did the 2019-2020 STC Alliance Competition Judges Say about the “Professional Technical Writing” Course?

  • “Writing is a strength that all should improve on, and the content of this course covers a foundation useful for all.
  • This course covers, writing techniques, editing techniques, components of a document, how to create a project plan, the use of tables, images, and flowcharts, and even touches on the future trends of technical communication. This is all-encompassing.
  • The course covers a wide range of topics to introduce Technical Writing and presents technical writing as an alternate career path.
  • The scope of the material is appropriate for the audience and purpose.
  • Content includes references to additional materials or resources.
  • The structure is evident.
  • The organization is logical and consistent.
  • Headings and subheadings consistently signal topics and subtopics.
  • These instructional videos are extensive and a great way to build a technical writing foundation!
  • The audio track is different from the slide captions promoting engagement on the readers.
  • The course offers illustrations and photographs used throughout the slides, but they do a good job of not taking over-focus on what is important.
  • I love that you are accepting feedback on the course from your students. It is obvious how they can contact you.
  • Great work! We can see how anyone would learn something new from this course.
  • This course covers just about everything that an entry-level technical writer starting out can think of.

Thank you all from the bottom of my heart!

Write tight. Stay bright. Serve right.

Ugur Akinci, Ph.D.
Sr. Technical Writer and Writing Instructor

P.S. Right now “Professional Technical Writing” Course comes with a $50 OFF coupon.

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