Today in Technical Communication
So, for the past four months I've been taking the Technical Communication program at Seneca.
As many of you know, this has been a goal of mine for a few years. Getting into the profession, that is. Not joining the program. That was my goal after I found out it existed and was co-op.
The program is a pretty intense one. We have a variety of classes, about 50% of which I thought were theoretical at the beginning of the semester, but which turned out to be pretty much all practical in various degrees.
The editing course was an interesting one, which used Technical Editing by Carolyn Rude as its core text. We've learned a lot in that course about copy editing, proof reading and comprehensive editing, and a chunk of our course load was preparing editing documents & check-lists and a kick ass style guide.
We also had a couple half semester courses. One of them was our co-op preparation course. It was a couple weeks late starting due to a strike, but a lot of the stuff on resume preparation and interviewing I got from Right Management after I got laid off.
The other was a course in FrameMaker. It was taught by Bernard Aschwenden, who knows a lot about the program.
We also had a matched pair of courses Technical Communication and The Technical Communicator. The Technical Communicator was taught by Anna Parker Richards. She and Bernard have something in common, both having been President of the local chapter of the Toronto branch of the STC.
The course has strongly encouraged us to participate in the STC, and I'm going to be joining them next year. Seneca hosted a career day for the STC, where we got interview and social media tips. I also won a Linked In consult from Hannah Morgan. I finally got her my info, so I'm going to get to update my LinkedIn soon and be all employable and stuff.
A little secret: I'm writing this post as a class assignment for our IT course, taught by Beth Agnew.
As many of you know, this has been a goal of mine for a few years. Getting into the profession, that is. Not joining the program. That was my goal after I found out it existed and was co-op.
The program is a pretty intense one. We have a variety of classes, about 50% of which I thought were theoretical at the beginning of the semester, but which turned out to be pretty much all practical in various degrees.
The editing course was an interesting one, which used Technical Editing by Carolyn Rude as its core text. We've learned a lot in that course about copy editing, proof reading and comprehensive editing, and a chunk of our course load was preparing editing documents & check-lists and a kick ass style guide.
We also had a couple half semester courses. One of them was our co-op preparation course. It was a couple weeks late starting due to a strike, but a lot of the stuff on resume preparation and interviewing I got from Right Management after I got laid off.
The other was a course in FrameMaker. It was taught by Bernard Aschwenden, who knows a lot about the program.
We also had a matched pair of courses Technical Communication and The Technical Communicator. The Technical Communicator was taught by Anna Parker Richards. She and Bernard have something in common, both having been President of the local chapter of the Toronto branch of the STC.
The course has strongly encouraged us to participate in the STC, and I'm going to be joining them next year. Seneca hosted a career day for the STC, where we got interview and social media tips. I also won a Linked In consult from Hannah Morgan. I finally got her my info, so I'm going to get to update my LinkedIn soon and be all employable and stuff.
A little secret: I'm writing this post as a class assignment for our IT course, taught by Beth Agnew.