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Manual Creation Seminar by Active Writers
- "The development team is also responsible for creating instruction manuals, but they are difficult to read and understand."
- "Create internal operation manuals with multiple staff members. There are no rules and the writing styles are inconsistent..."
- "I am aware that there is a problem, but I do not know how to improve it."
Active Technical Writers will respond to your concerns like this.
You can learn the tips for creating sentences while considering examples of failures and other basic rules for creating sentences.
You can also bring your manual with you if it is currently a problem.
In addition to one-sided lectures, we also offer individual consultation time for your concerns.
We will perform an "Easy Manual Diagnosis" on the spot.
Feel free to ask the instructor any questions you may have about creating manuals on a regular basis, or any sudden doubts you may have.
We will provide advice from a professional perspective.
Event Details
- Date and Time
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- September 11, 2014 (Wednesday) 10:00-17:00
- Location
- Human Science Co., Ltd. Conference Room
13th Floor, Odakyu Daiichi Seimei Building, 7-1 Nishi-Shinjuku 2-chome, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo >>Access
- Cost
- 30,000 yen (excluding tax) *Bank transfer to designated account
- Capacity
- 14 people
- Minimum Number of Participants
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- Application Method
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- To participate in this seminar, please apply from here.
- We will send you a reply with information such as reception guidance and payment transfer method from the person in charge.
- Application Deadline
- September 4, 2014 (Thursday)
- Target Audience (Example)
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- ・Person in charge of creating business manuals
- ・Person in charge of creating instruction manuals
- ・For those who want to learn the basics of business document creation
Features
- Practical seminars by active writers
・Engaged in daily manual creation as a Technical Writer
Active technical writers serve as instructors
・We will share our know-how, tips, and points to note gained from over 10 years of manual creation experience.
- Actual "try writing" exercise and workshop-style lecture
- The second half of the training will be conducted in a workshop format, where example sentences will be given for practice.
・The instructor will explain the correct example on the spot.
- Simple Manual Diagnosis (Individual Consultation for Specific Concerns)
・If you have the current manual, we will advise you on improvement points.
- Workshop text (with exercise problems) can be taken home
・Can also be used for in-house manual creation education with text examples
Program
- Part1 Basic Knowledge Required for Manual Creation
- What are the basic rules for creating a manual and the Trademark/Product Liability (PL) Law?
- What is a good manual? "Sasisuseso" for creating manuals.
- What are the key points to consider for each step in the process of creating a manual?
- How to create each section: front matter, table of contents, body, and index.
- Part2 Writing Techniques: How to Write Clear and Concise Sentences?
- ※Part2 will be conducted in the form of exercises. The lecture will be conducted in a workshop format where example sentences will be given as questions.
- [Q&A]
- [Simple Manual Diagnosis (Individual Consultation)]
- ※If you can bring the manual that is currently causing problems,
- We will perform an "Easy Manual Diagnosis" on the spot.
- Please feel free to ask the instructor any questions you may have about creating manuals. They will provide advice from a professional perspective.
>>Curriculum Details PDF
Achievements/Testimonials
- ・Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Company, Limited
- "I now understand the cause of the vagueness that I had been feeling and feel relieved."
- ・Sumitomo Electric Information Systems Co., Ltd.
- "It was a good opportunity to grasp the issues and objectively review the manual. I was able to recognize the importance of organizing information and weighting it."
- "By comparing bad and good examples, we were able to expand our awareness of problem areas in our company's instruction manual."
- ・Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- ・Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.
- ・Bosch Packaging Technology Co., Ltd. and many others
- ・Testimonials from other students
- "Even though I felt something was off with the Japanese, I didn't know how to make it into a good sentence, but I was able to learn the fundamentals of what makes a good sentence."
- "I couldn't improve other people's writing, but I feel like I can make good suggestions in the future."
- "I was able to learn the points to check and the methods. I want to utilize them in my work."
- "Realistic because it is based on actual writing experience."
- "It was easy to understand because you explained it with specific examples of bad writing."
- "Even though I have been mindful of these points, there was no compiled material as a collection of writing techniques, so it seems like it will be useful for future education."
- "It was helpful to be taught the structure and expression methods that I have been wondering about."
- "I was able to organize my thoughts systematically when creating the manual, which was beneficial."
- "The lecture was easy to understand, and I was able to unify and organize my thoughts that had been unclear until now."
Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Company, Limited Manual Creation Training
Instructor, Assistant
Yoshiyuki Yasuoka
- ・Technical Writing Experience: 15 years
- - Engaged in projects to create operation manuals, business manuals, various instruction manuals, product utilization guides, and educational materials for corporate internal systems.
- ・Active as a consultant for manual evaluation and manual creation for major manufacturers
- ・Since 2008, I have been responsible for teaching dedicated instructors to the development department of a major FA equipment manufacturer's product manual.
- - "Tips for creating easy-to-understand instruction manuals and reducing production costs" and "Techniques for creating manuals that are useful for multilingual deployment" are the themes for the seminar instructor.
Kaori Horikoshi
- ・Technical Writing Experience: 13 years
- ・Engaged in project to create Microsoft Office product seminar materials, books, various product manuals, help, and business manuals
- - Involved in manual evaluation, consulting for major electronics manufacturers, and development of seminar materials for major insurance company representatives.
- ・Responsible for operating manual for multifunction printers (20 languages) as a translation director, not only for Japanese manuals but also for other languages.
- ・Presented at the Japan Translation Federation-sponsored Translation Festival 2013. Presented "Approaches to Machine Translation in Multilingual Environments: From the Perspectives of Evaluation and Process."
Yasuda Jun
- ・Technical Writing Experience: 3 years
- ・Engaged in creating various product manuals such as image analysis software operation manual and software development kit manual (Japanese, English), Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint usage guide, etc.
- ・Evaluation of manuals for construction machinery manufacturers and consulting, also involved in the development of seminar materials for power control system companies
- ・Engaged in improving the operation and maintenance of FX systems at a financial IT consulting firm for about 3 years as an SE. Also involved in the maintenance and improvement of documentation related to the operation and maintenance of FX systems.
Related Services
Manual Creation Seminar (Customized to meet your needs)
Manual Creation In-house Support and Evaluation Services
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