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Technical Communication and Artificial Intelligence

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This course is designed for professionals looking to enhance their technical documentation skills and stand out in today’s job market. By completing the course, you will be able to create beginner and intermediate documentation and use generative AI to make your work more efficient and effective. You’ll also build a portfolio of beginner and intermediate documentation, including technical instructions and tailored cover letters and resumes, that showcase your communication abilities. Through lessons on rhetoric and metacognition, genre, audience, prewriting and writing, organization and design, and post-writing reflection, you’ll gain both the foundational skills of technical communication and the modern advantage of AI-enhanced writing. By the end, you will be more confident in producing clear, polished documents and equipped with versatile skills that help you advance in your career and succeed across industries. No prior experience is required.

Syllabus

  • Technical Communication
    • Lays and sets the foundation for understanding how we can efficiently and effectively create and generate documentation.
  • Prewriting & Writing
    • Begin to learn the processes that will allow us to create and generate documentation efficiently and effectively.
  • Artificial Intelligence
    • Recognize that artificial intelligence is a complement or a supplement not a replacement. (We work with it; it works with us.)
  • Organization & Design
    • Introduces the primary means by which we architecturally control (guide) readers' interaction with our documentation.
  • Post-writing
    • Introduces the task most often associated with technical communication (revision, editing, proofreading).

Taught by

Kevin Dover, Ph.D.

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