February 2021
Technical English writing with certified STE training
Technical English writing with certified STE training
ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English is a guideline that regulates the wording and writing style used in technical publications. Writing in Simplified Technical English (STE) is about informing your audience: the user. Whether he or she is a consumer, an engineer, a maintenance technician, or a staff in a hospital, it doesn’t matter whom we are talking to. If we have a message for them, it should really go without saying that we want to be understood, and language should never be an obstacle.
Language is a means to communicate the information that we have to present to our users, to our audience. Since the early 2000s, STE as a versatile standard has become such a success that other industries have adopting and adapting its principles to meet their own business needs. Interest in this international writing standard has also proliferated in the fields of language services, professional translation, and interpreting, as well as academia.
Certified STE training is not rocket science, but there are some common pitfalls to avoid, and you can definitely use some help and guidance in dealing with STE technical writing rules, how to correctly, efficiently, and effectively apply them. The first day of the STE training course would be mainly theory coupled with some standard exercises. The second day would be more like a workshop practising on your own documents and learning how they change, and hopefully improve by applying Simplified English to them.
Syntax, vocabulary and terminology all are covered by a good training course. If there is software to be used, it should also teach you not so much how to deal with the software menus, because the checker tools are pretty easy to operate. The problem is more how do you use a checker effectively, not being misled or governed by the software, but making the software an effective assistant in order to write, rewrite, and update your documentation most effectively and accurately.
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