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DITA for Technical Writing for IT Industry
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DITA for Technical Writing for IT Industry

DITA Technical Writing for anyone
Created byDr Aparna RR
Last updated 8/2022
English
English [Auto],

What you'll learn

  • Basic and advanced knowledge of DITA Technical writing methods & Strategies XMETAL, CCMS
  • Technical Writing requirements of IT industry, best practices
  • How to author using, DITA TAska, Concepts and references for a software documentation, Various types of documentation
  • Start career as Technical Writer, familiarity with content development tools XMETAL DITA , CCMS

Course content

1 section • 11 lectures • 2h 4m total length

  • Introduction2:01

    Explore the data perspective of technical writing in dita, using structured authoring with xml data, covering task concepts, references, views, metadata, admonitions, sections, and cms workflows.

  • Structured Authoring & XML27:16

    Learn how structured authoring improves reuse and searchability over unstructured writing using XML as the core language. Discover tags, elements, attributes, and templates with tools like XMetaL, Oxygen, and FrameMaker.

  • DITA Features and Benefits28:50

    Provide standard structure and topic-based authoring to enable reuse and modular content; XML, CMS backends, and single-source publishing support multiple outputs like PDF and HTML while easing translation.

  • DITA XMETAL -Topics, concept,View, metadata, admonition, sections11:38

    Explore DITA XMETAL fundamentals by building and formatting lists (ordered, unordered, definition), composing tasks with steps and substeps, and mastering cross references, file references, web references, and content reuse.

  • DITA XMETAL -Lists, Tasks, Links, Reference12:05

    Learn DITA XMETAL basics: create and manage lists (ordered, unordered, definition), build tasks with steps and sub steps, and insert links, cross file references, and reuse content dynamically.

  • DITA Adobe Frame Maker4:05

    Learn to use Adobe FrameMaker for DITA workflows, creating XML data topics such as concepts, tasks, references, and glossary entries, with prologue indexing for terminologies and structured views.

  • DITA XMETAL-References, graphics, citations,glossary, index, footnotes12:15

    Create and format DITA references, graphics, glossary terms, index terms, and footnotes using XML view. Build and reference tables with captions and cross-references, and manage figure captions.

  • DITA Sample BOOK4:20

    Explore a DITA sample book converted from a pilot training manual into a data-driven format, illustrating concepts, sections, and images with captions.

  • DITA XMETAL - Appendix, maps, bookaps,publishing,SDL11:25

    Learn how to compose topics into a cohesive book using maps and book maps, configure front and back matter, manage versions with a CMS, and publish in multiple formats.

  • Component content management system (CCMS)5:03

    Explore how a modular component content management system enables creation, reuse, versioning, translation, and multi-channel delivery from a single source, with collaborative review and branching.

  • How to create Review Checklist5:57

    Develop and use a customized review checklist to conduct thorough IT document reviews, addressing scope, client priorities, grammar, headings and subheadings, and cross reference.

Requirements

  • Any one can learn the art of Technical Writing, working professional, Career change

Description

This technical writing course is curated for people working on IT industry oe people are looking forward to move to IT industry.

Existing Technical writes find lot of insights in to various aspects of technical writing, how to structure various document types,  API documentation, GUI documentation covered in course 1 and DITA aspects of technical writing is covered in this course.  All DITA concepts are covered with XMETAL examples.

People looking for a career in Technical writing frehers/ beginners will get a complete understanding on what is technical writing (software & Hardware documentation) all about and what skills you require to become an effective technical writer.

Various document types, essentials of technical writer and effective technical writing principles covered in course 1 and Structured authoring and XML, elements, tags covered in this course. Also includes DITA features and benefits.

Basically this course gives you lot of insights and information about the techical publication or Technical writing industry, and a supportive material to prepare and clear your interviews.

This course is divided into Level-1 and Level-2 not to make it exhaustive.

In Level 1, concepts like Role of techical writer, characteristics of techical writing, document types and its structures, examples using API documentation, SRS documentation and exmaples for GUI documentation is provided.

Please take the Level 1 course before jumping to Level 2 course.

THis Level -2 Courese covers DITA features, benefits, Topics, CCMS, working examples using XMETAL.

If you have a degree in arts or engineering and a flair of english writing and technology , then your the best person to become a technical writer and earn a good remuneration in the IT industry.

Who this course is for:

  • Freshers, Technical Writers, content developers, business writers, writers, documentation specialist,Everyone

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