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Your Freelance Writing Business

This practical guide can help you start and run a successful freelance technical and business writing service. Learn how to set up your business, find clients, promote yourself, set your fees, manage your projects, get paid and more! Click the button below for more information or to purchase this informative book!

Introduction to Adobe FrameMaker 9 for Windows

Based on my highly successful online course, Introduction to Adobe FrameMaker 9 for Windows gently helps you build a solid foundation in using this difficult application. Click the button below for more information and to order the book.

Improve your chances of getting the job you want with WordWorx classes designed for technical writers, engineers, and other technical professionals.

Classes start December 12.

Writing Great Technical Documents Every day, thousands of scientists, engineers, and other technical professionals write technical documents. And every day, thousands of these documents fail to achieve their desired results. Why? Because the authors failed to understand that HOW they write is just as important as WHAT they write. This focused course helps you write technical documents that get the results you want. The course includes instructor critique of two documents you've written. Course fee: $169.
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Writing for Your Readers Don't have time to take the full Writing Great Technical Documents course? By popular demand, this breakout course offers you a quick way to learn how to analyze your readers, determine what different types of readers want from your documents, and use specific writing strategies for different types of readers. Course fee: $20.
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Punctuation and Grammar for Business Writers This quick refresher course teaches you the grammar and punctuation conventions you're expected to use when writing business and technical documents. You'll also learn how to handle some of trickiest mechanical issues of writing business and technical documents, as well as looking at some grammar myths and common errors. Course fee: $20.
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Introduction to Unstructured FrameMaker 9 for Windows FrameMaker is undoubtedly the "gold standard" in high-end desktop publishing applications. Around the world, technical writers use it to create very large, complex documentation. Many employers require that their technical writers know how to use this complicated, sometimes quirky application. This full course teaches you how to use unstructured FrameMaker 9. By the end of the course, you'll feel comfortable with designing master pages, creating paragraph and character tags, designing and importing graphics, building books, and much more. Course fee: $499.00

Janet Underwood

Technical Writer and Trainer

Your Freelance Writing Business

Introduction to Adobe FrameMaker 9 for Windows

Improve your chances of getting the job you want with WordWorx classes designed for technical writers, engineers, and other technical professionals.

Classes start December 12.