Write effective user manuals & instructions with Simplified Technical English (STE)
Certified STE Masterclass | Asia Pacific (APAC) Online
Dates: 2 & 3 March 2023
Time: 09:00 to 15:00 UTC/GMT +08:00 [APAC]
Length of training: 2 days
Course registration ends one week before training commences.
Course fee includes exercises, learning aids, certificate of completion, and 90-day post-training support.
Give those STE muscles a much needed stretch
Simplified Technical English (STE) or ASD-STE100 is a controlled technical English language that is used to write technical manuals in 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 help participants advance their technical writing skills in the correct and effective use of STE across industries and provide a customised learning experience at the same time.
The introduction was a good and concise way to familiarise yourself with STE basics. I’ve a background in plain language, so for example the rule on noun clusters makes perfect sense. I’m all about simplification, so substituting verbs like “eliminate” for verbs like “remove” or “stop” will be my new quest. The STE exercises were helpful in getting to grasp with STE during the training workshop. I’d very likely recommend this course to anyone planning to introduce STE as it’s got a great practical angle. Jenni Virtaluoto, PhD, Senior Lecturer, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Certified STE Masterclass Course Outline*
This 2-day Certified Simplified Technical English (STE) Masterclass includes cross-industry case studies and in-depth analyses of participants’ own documents.
- Day 1: Classroom Training with Exercises
- Business case studies: Benefits of adopting the STE international writing standard
- Writing rules and how to apply them across different documentation types
- How to use STE for various documentation types
- Customising your industry-specific terminology.
- Day 2: STE Application & Review
- Implementing STE with minimal disruption to on-going production and existing documentation
- Half-day rewriting workshop session of own documents
- Review, edit, and present own documents for learning reinforcement
- Group discussion and review of own documents.
* 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 this Certified STE Masterclass?
Course participants must have fulfilled basic Simplified Technical English training organised by Master TCLoc, Shufrans TechDocs, TCTrainNet, or have prior experience working with this technical writing language standard.
- Compliance managers
- CIO, COO, CTO
- Customer support managers
- Documentation managers
- Editors
- Engineering managers
- Engineers and SMEs who create documentation
- Graphics specialists
- ILS managers
- Maintenance managers
- Operation managers
- Product managers
- Project managers
- Quality managers
- Software research engineers
- Technical illustrators
- Technical writers
- Translation managers
- Translators.
What technical writing 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.
ASD-STE100 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 200 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, she 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 industrial sectors ranging from machinery to IT, automotive to medical equipment.
