Through interactive workshops and exercises, your technical publication and writing team will learn how to standardise content and structure to:
I fully appreciate the advantages and benefits of implementing international language standards to our documentation.
The technical English writing rules were clearly presented during this webinar. Overall, I have found this webinar to be useful for my work and Shumin responded well to all my questions and clarified the doubts I had before taking this course.
Oxana Barkova, Senior Technical Writer, Technical Documentation Development, IT, Kaspersky Lab
Simplified Technical English is an important topic for our industry. I’ve enjoyed learning about all the rules of STE summarised into bite-sized information over the course of two training days. The quality of this training has been exceptional!
Andreas Herter, Technical Trainer, Schindler Elevator Corporation
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Our certified Simplified Technical English training workshops are conducted by seasoned industry experts who work according to international standards, while having the flexibility to deal with your specific requirements. Our ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English training programme supports the current version of the ASD-STE100 specification, Issue 9, January 2025.
Shufrans TechDocs offers the following STE training programmes & consultancy services:
This training workshop offers the most tailored type of training designed to meet your exact needs. Our trainers will deliver STE training at your preferred on-site location. With Shufrans’ customised training workshop, there will be plenty of opportunities to ask questions, seek clarification and receive personalised STE coaching.
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Overview of ASD-STE100 development & status Explanation of specification structure Tea/coffee break STE writing rules Part 1 Lunch break STE writing rules applied – exercises & review Tea/coffee break STE writing rules Part 2 Adjourn |
Vocabulary review Tea/coffee break Guidelines for customer specific terms Lunch break STE writing rules applied – exercises & review Tea/coffee break Writing/ rewriting instruction Tea/coffee break Adjourn |
Quality improvement issues Tea/coffee break Rewriting exercise (own documents) Lunch break Rewriting review & presentation Tea/coffee break Q & A Certificate hand-out Adjourn |
Shufrans’ on-site customised ASD-STE100 training workshops aim to help companies with in-house technical writing staff, technical writing teams or departments that are responsible for content and publishing implement STE in a perfectly consistent and coherent manner.
On-site training workshops are ideal for companies that manage medium and large-sized technical writing teams that include professionals such as:
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It’s all about your needs
An on-site training class will offer you the most personalised form of training based on the nature of your business and industry. Our trainers will prepare a training agenda for your prior approval at least two weeks before class commences.
Dedicated support
During training, your technical team can fully tap on our trainers’ expertise and receive fully customised training support adapted solely for your business needs.
Convenience at your doorstep
An on-site class is also the most convenient option as our trainers will do their best to accommodate your schedule, and conduct training at your preferred location. Last, but not least, an on-site training does away with participants’ travel and accommodation expenses.
Deliverables
Copy of the ASD-STE100 specification, exercises, learning aids, certificate.
On-site classes are available throughout the year. To request for an on-site training session, simply fill out the registration form below.
Please include the following details in your message:
We require a minimum class size of 5 participants for class commencement.
Every on-site training session is different. For this reason, we will prepare a customised quotation once we receive the following information:
We require a minimum class size of 5 participants for class commencement.
Our open or shared STE training classes offer a highly accessible training platform where you can interact with participants from other industries during a 2-day training session. Shared STE training classes are organised roughly 6 times a year in various locations worldwide. Our trainers will deliver a comprehensive STE training curriculum to impart relevant STE writing techniques. This helps you to use effectively and accurately use STE in practice.
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Overview of ASD-STE100 development & status Explanation of specification structure Tea/coffee break STE writing rules Lunch break STE writing rules applied – exercises & review Tea/coffee break Vocabulary review Adjourn |
Writing/rewriting instruction Tea/coffee break Rewriting exercise (own documents) Lunch break Rewriting review Tea/coffee break Q & A Certificate hand-out Adjourn |
Open STE training classes are ideal for companies that manage small and medium-sized technical writing teams that include professionals such as:
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2-day training workshop to kickstart your professional STE writing career
An open STE training class offers you 2 intensive training days when you can analyse and edit your own documentation with the help of our STE trainer. The training curriculum is designed to include lectures, course work and exercises that will prepare you for STE compliant authoring of technical manuals.
Learn and exchange ideas on an interactive platform
You will join other specialists from industries’ leading companies and gain access to new solutions and learning approaches to similar technical writing problems that you face at work. Our open STE training classes offer you a great opportunity to benchmark your technical writing workflow against industry leaders. Discussions will be moderated by our STE trainers.
Availability
Shufrans’ open STE training classes are organised roughly 6 times a year in various locations. You will always find an available training session just next door. This helps you reduce your travelling time and costs. Please refer to upcoming training class locations.
Deliverables
Copy of the ASD-STE100 specification, exercises, learning aids, certificate.
Open STE classes are available throughout the year. To register for an open STE training class, simply fill out the registration form below.
Please include the following details in your message:
We require a minimum class size of 6 participants for class commencement. If there are more than 2 participants from your company who will attend this training, please contact us for applicable discounts.
EUR 1,500 per person (VAT not applicable)
If there are more than 2 participants from your company who will attend this training, please contact us for applicable discounts.
After STE training, writers would normally need sufficient time to adjust to new writing guidelines. Shufrans works with your staff to support any ongoing STE continuous improvement processes so that they become effective practitioners of the Simplified Technical English language. We can meet on-site with your staff, or conduct online Q&A sessions for your trained writers.
Shufrans also provides proofreading and editing services to kick-start and support your STE implementation. You can either send us your content for an STE review, or participate in an online compliance review as you prepare your document for translation.
In some cases, our customers ask us to review their first manual written in STE or to rewrite a manual for future reference purposes. We can also help you build your STE compliant technical terms dictionary, giving you optimum control over downstream documentation processes such as translation.
It is also possible to arrange for an STE expert on-site to facilitate any ongoing implementation process.
If your business requires regulatory compliance with the ASD-STE100 standard, Shufrans can support your technical writing team to make sure that they author fully ASD-STE100 compliant documentation.
Once trained, technical writers can apply STE principles to every content creation steps. A training approach ensures that your content is easily readable and also optimised for future translations.
To help you follow STE rules correctly, multiple STE checker tools have been created by various companies. Some were created strictly for the purpose of enforcing STE rules, while others regulate writing processes.
Our preferred checker software tool is the Acrolinx ASD-STE100 solution module. Find out more.
To implement STE in your organization, Shufrans offers crucial support in every step of the way. We help your writers comply with STE throughout the entire product documentation life cycle:
We use the latest version of the ASD-STE100 specification: Issue 9, January 2025.
Principal ASD-STE100 Trainer & Consultant
Ms. Chen received her professional on-the-job training in the field of STE under the tutelage of Dr Frans Wijma, a linguist, documentation expert and private pilot who has been in the field of controlled language, multilingual documentation and aerospace & defense standards for 15 years, working with customers worldwide. STE classes taught include Boeing, BAE Systems, Rolls-Royce, EADS, Eurocopter, FAA, RAF, Philips, Fluke, Watchguard, Elekta, Hach, Tellabs, Omron and Kubota.
Dr. Wijma and Ms. Chen are regarded as the leading experts in Simplified Technical English (STE) implementation. They received very professional positive feedback and references are available on request.
