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Technical Writing for GE Healthcare Blended Online and Face-To-Face Program

 

This class is for GE Healthcare employees only. It is a synchronous class that can be taken face-to-face or remotely. GE employees register by clicking on "Add to Registration Form" below. Complete the form and include payment information. You will receive information on logging into UWM and other details before the class.

  Learn how to:
  • Know the purpose of your writing before you begin
  • Organize material by purpose and audience
  • Write with greater clarity and precision
  • Simplify complex technical information
  • Recognize audience needs
  • Use illustrations and tables effectively
  • Edit and polish final drafts

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This class is organized into four two-hour units:
1. evaluating audience, purpose, and content,
2. examining the role of organization and visual strategies in presenting information,
3. writing clearly by avoiding common mechanical and rhetorical problems,
4. applying skills to improve sample GE documents and genres.

Computer with WebEx and Internet connection required.

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Benefits and Learning Outcomes

  • Know the purpose of your writing before you begin
  • Organize material by purpose and audience
  • Write with greater clarity and precision
  • Simplify complex technical information
  • Recognize audience needs
  • Use illustrations and tables effectively
  • Edit and polish final drafts

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This program can be applied toward the:

Notes
Computer with WebEx and Internet connection required.
 
  Sessions  
Tue., June 18-Tue., June 20
8am-12:15pm
Location: UWM School of Continuing Education (Click link for directions)
Instructor: Dave Clark, Ph.D.
Fee: $200
Enrollment Limit: 30
Program No. 8125-3805
Add To Registration Form   Check Registration Form
 
Tue., Sept. 17-Tue., Sept. 19
8am-12:15pm
Location: UWM School of Continuing Education (Click link for directions)
Instructor: Dave Clark, Ph.D.
Fee: $200
Enrollment Limit: 30
Program No. 8125-3806
Add To Registration Form   Check Registration Form
 
 
For more information, contact:
  Anne O'Meara, Program Director, aomeara@uwm.edu, 414-227-3311
 
 


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