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How to Become a Modern and Successful Technical Writer Using DITA XML
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Technical Writing: How to Write Using DITAXML
Do you want to learn how to write structured documentation using DITAXML?If yes, I can help! My name is Jordan Stanchev. I have built my career in the field of technical communications in the last 20 years. Starting off my carrier as a Java developer, I have then become a senior technical writer and had built a career as a DITA information architect. Ihave written thousands of pages of software documentation guides for administrators and for developers. The software products I have worked on are in the field of security, messaging services, and development infrastructure (such as GitHub and SAPNWDI). Today, I am a part of the team that leads the development of DITA XML-based infrastructure projects. The technical writers’ community we serve is more than 1000 authors. I also chair the experts’ group of our nearly 300 people strong group of DITAinformation architects in a Fortune 500 company. I constantly have to write software development specifications and project documentation, in addition to the user guides information Iprovide. What can Isay, I have vast experience to share in structured writing and information architecture using DITA XML. And this is what I focus on in this course. Based on my experience, what I can tell you, is that a modern technical writer looking to build his or her career in the field of technical communications, knowing DITAXML simply is a must! You wouldn’t believe how often I hear back from my students how the knowledge from this course is what made the break-through in their DITAtechnical writer job interview and helped them advance their career! To achieve the ultimate career goal, all you do need is to learn writing using DITA! Knowledge of DITA is relevant for you if you are involved in any way with software documentation as a:- technical writer; – information architect;- people manager, managing technical writers in the team;- user experience designer;- business analyst;- project manager;The course ‘How to Write Using DITAXML” is designed for intermediate to advanced level technical writers who want to deep dive into the capabilities offered by DITA, create complex and personalized user guides and deliver this single-sourced output using the Oxygen Author tool into various delivery channels. It is based on the 10 days long online DITAtraining I’ve been providing to my students. WARNING: It will take you around 7-8 hours from the start of this course just to go through this material! It comes with lots of various hands-on exercises, examples, and advice based on my practice. I recommend that you take one section a day at most, to avoid being overwhelmed and manage to perform each exercise described. The course further deep dive and elaborate the basic concepts and knowledge introduced with the course ‘A Quick Start to Technical Writing with DITA’ and then provides more advanced details and strategies such as reuse of content and personalization of content based on profiling strategy. Note: If you are looking for a quick start into DITA, consider the basic DITAcourse ‘A Quick Start to Technical Writing with DITA’, which is for technical communicators, that are not yet familiar with DITA. What will you learn?Section 1: IntroductionBy the end of this section you will able to explain:- What is DITA;- What are the benefits of writing software documentation using DITA;Just spelling out the benefits of writing in DITAtakes a lot of time! There are so many reasons why DITAis getting more and more popular. Today you cannot be a modern technical writer if you do not know how to write software documentation using DITAXML! It’s the de facto standard XMLfor writing! You must know and spell out the benefits of DITA, and be sure, on a job interview you will be asked why DITAis so important. Just to name a few: – Based on common information types- It implies strict rules for writing, no matter who the technical writer is- Content is modularized and reusable- Automatically generated various outputs from the same DITAsource;- Content can be personalized, and so on. Section 2: Get Started with DITABy the end of this section you will be able to:- Apply the 4 steps for creating the content of a user guide;- Explain what is a DITAmap;- Create the 3 most frequently used DITAtopics types: Task, Concept, and Reference;- Create DITAmaps;- Reference topics in a map to construct a deliverable (user guide) using Oxygen XML Author;Writing in DITAis easy. Do not let the diversity in tags and the huge number of DITAcapabilities confuse you. All you need to write your first guide is a strategy (what you want to deliver) and a set of simple steps to follow to construct your guide (explained in this section of the course)!Section 3: DITAElementsBy the end of this section you will be able to:- Name the most commonly used DITAtopic elements (DITAtags); – Describe a strategy for using topic elements in the context of a specific topic;- Open, search through and select the needed topic elements in a topic;- Use the list of topic elements in the context of a Task topic;DITA comes with
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