Technical & Business Writing

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain how to professionally and effectively develop various kinds of activity and analytical reports including planning, selecting the style and format, designing, organizing, drafting, and finalizing.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain how to professionally and effectively develop various kinds of activity and analytical reports including planning, selecting the style and format, designing, organizing, drafting, and finalizing.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe technical writing in terms of the different genres, its importance, and strategies for an effective process for technical writing in the workplace.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain guidelines for developing, selecting, and using visuals effectively in documents and presentations.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain how to improve readability of documents and interfaces for a variety of Audiences using balance, alignment, grouping, consistency, contrast, visual structure of text, uniformity, and cultural expectations of electronic and paper-based media.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain how to professionally and effectively develop instructions, documentation, and procedures including selecting style, layout, graphics, and format and planning, organizing, drafting, and finalizing the content.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain how to professionally and effectively develop letters, memos, and e-mails for the workplace including selecting appropriate design, style, and format and planning, organizing, drafting, and finalizing the content.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to define ethics as it applies to communication in the workplace including copyright and plagiarism issues and laws.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain strategies for organizing various genres of documents including outlining, using presentation software to organize information, organizing the introduction and conclusion, organizing the sections of the body, and organizing for transcultural Audiences.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain strategies that can be used to persuade others to come together to work on a technical writing project using reasoning, values, logic, examples, evidence, language, and an audience's culture.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain how to select and write in an appropriate style in the drafting and revising stage of a technical writing project.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain how to write effectively for the web including designing effective website interfaces, starting social networking sites, creating blogs, posting videos and podcasts, and adding articles to a wiki.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain how to professional and effectively develop proposals including planning, researching, organizing, drafting, and finalizing as well as including appropriate graphics.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain techniques for researching a topic of a technical writing project including defining the research subject and questions or hypothesis, using concept mapping, developing research methodology, assuring the reliability of evidence, and taking notes.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain how to plan for finding a career position including using web-based and traditional networking, preparing a resume in both electronic and traditional formats, writing an effective application letter, creating a targeted and professional portfolio, and interviewing effectively.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain how to plan a technical writing project including establishing goals and objectives, listing tasks, creating a timeline, and generating ideas.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain how to professionally and effectively develop descriptions and specifications including selecting style, layout, graphics, and format and planning, organizing, drafting, and finalizing the content.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain strategies and guidelines that can be used to effectively revise and edit a document for quality including using strategies for document cycling and usability testing.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain how to develop a comprehensive profile for a document's Audiences including use of computer Audience analysis tools, identifying types of audiences and their needs, analyzing the context influencing how a Audience will interpret the text, and analyzing global and transcultural needs of Audiences.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain strategies and techniques for working in teams including applying the four stages of teaming, using strategic planning to start a project, managing a team, defining team roles, applying TQM strategies, and working in a virtual team.