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ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English workshop for all industries, 7 – 8 June 2018 in Istanbul, Turkey

ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English workshop for all industries, 7 – 8 June 2018 in Istanbul, Turkey

Quick facts

Dates: 7 – 8 June 2018

Location: Istanbul, Turkey

Length of training: 2 days

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Summary

ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English (STE) is a controlled language that is used to write technical manuals in such a way that they can be more easily understood by an international audience. STE helps to make translations cheaper and more accurate. Often a formal requirement for aircraft and defence maintenance documentation, STE can easily be adapted to all technical industries and beyond. Ms. Shumin Chen will teach participants how to correctly and effectively use STE in practice. She will also address some of the mistakes commonly found in technical writing and the frequently incorrect use of common STE writing rules.

It is important that operation and management information be understandable to the target audience. Sometimes, operation information is conveyed through a less-than-optimum selection of words. The manufacturer’s technical language can result in incomprehensible operation documentation.

Course outline*

  • Practical overview of ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English
  • How STE helps both native & non-native speakers of English
  • Writing rules and how to apply them in practice
  • How to use the general vocabulary
  • How to deal with industry-specific terminology
  • How to use STE for various documentation types
  • How to implement STE with minimal disruption to on-going production and existing documentation
  • Hands-on STE editing and review

* Shufrans also offers customised ASD-STE100 training solutions tailored to meet your specific requirements. These courses are normally provided at the customer’s premises.

Who should attend?

  • Compliance managers
  • CIO, COO, CTO
  • Customer support managers
  • Documentation managers
  • Editors
  • Engineering managers
  • Engineers and SMEs who create documentation
  • ILS managers
  • Maintenance managers
  • Operation managers
  • Product managers
  • Project managers
  • Quality managers
  • Technical writers
  • Translation managers
  • Translators

What training outcomes to expect?

Our interactive training, exercises and workshop, will teach participants to standardise content to:

  • Author more efficiently
  • Communicate more effectively with a global audience
  • Improve operational safety
  • Reduce AOG / downtime
  • Facilitate modular writing and reuse
  • Facilitate teamwork
  • Facilitate translation
  • Maximise consistency
  • Optimise product lifecycle support
  • Reduce the cost of creating and maintaining technical publications

Trainer’s qualifications

Ms. Shumin Chen, principal trainer & consultant at Shufrans TechDocs received her professional on-the-job training in the field of STE under the tutelage of Dr Frans Wijma, a linguist and documentation expert. Together as an experienced global team, they provided their combined knowledge and dedication to benefit customers worldwide. To date, they have provided training and consultancy services to over 170 companies. Shufrans TechDocs is the only company with such vast experience in providing certified STE training.

Shumin has supported various companies with their STE and other documentation needs, based on standards where possible. Although STE was developed for the aerospace industry, more specifically for aircraft maintenance documentation, Shumin found that it made a lot of sense to apply the same principles to other industries and types of documents as well. Few -if any- changes to the specification are necessary to adapt STE to industries ranging from machinery to IT, automotive to medical equipment.

 

 

TCTrainNet offers new e-learning training course module on Simplified Technical English

TCTrainNet offers new e-learning training course module on Simplified Technical English

Training & e-learning

TCTrainNet is the first company worldwide to launch a Simplified Technical English (STE) e-learning course by Shumin CHEN to train technical writers and subject matter experts in the use and effective implementation of Simplified Technical English (STE). STE is the international standard for writing clear and accurate content and STE training is now made available to technical writers, engineers, and documentation teams.

This article was first published on tcworld magazine for information management by Monika Engelke • April 2017

As a technical writer, your main task is to transfer technical information to users in a clear way to help prevent user errors. In global organizations, a large amount of user information is written in English, with STE (Simplified Technical English) playing an important role as an international standard. Professional technical writers have a lot to gain by using this standard to communicate and be understood accurately worldwide.

That is why TCTrainNet has added a new training unit on STE that has been developed by our experts! In this new unit, you will get an overview of more than 60 rules that will help improve your writing skills.

The STE learning unit serves as a basic introduction to the concept and working principles of STE.

ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English (STE) is the international standard for accurate and efficient documentation. STE helps to make technical documentation easy to understand by standardizing vocabulary, grammar and style while letting users control their specific terminology.

It includes:

  • A set of technical English writing rules
  • A basic general vocabulary dictionary for writing technical documentation.

Language for all industries

STE addresses difficulties in understanding the English language. Problems related to complex sentence structures, confusing word forms, and unclear vocabulary are identified and resolved using STE technical writing rules. In George Orwell’s words, “If you simplify your English, you are freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy.”

The learning unit is intended to help you:

  1. Use words from the STE dictionary to replace ambiguous, confusing technical terms in your technical documentation.
  2. Apply STE writing rules in practice.
  3. Gain practical working knowledge of ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English.

Get certified in STE

Besides the STE e-learning module, Shufrans TechDocs’ online certified Simplified English workshops are live training sessions organised on a monthly basis for technical writers, information architects, and engineers based in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, the US, and Canada.

Participants can engage one another in constructive discussions that include suggestions on how to improve text readability and user-friendliness while being accurate and concise in your technical writing content at the same time. All exchanges are moderated by a well qualified Simplified Technical English trainer who will ensure quality and depth of discussion for every workshop participant.


Shumin Chen

About the trainer

Since 2006, Ms Shumin Chen has been working as a consultant with customers in various industries worldwide: aerospace and defence, banking, consumer products, healthcare, IT, medical and fitness equipment. She has helped many companies with their documentation needs, based on standards where possible, and is widely regarded as a leading expert in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English training, aviation documentation, and multilingual documentation.

Ms Chen now heads the ASD-STE100 training arm of Shufrans TechDocs. In her current role, Ms Chen continues to focus on the practical implementation of international standards to facilitate the efficient creation and management of multilingual documentation.