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We offer courses in several different educational modes.
Combination of pre-class and instructor-led
The following courses consist of a combination of the following:
Pre-class work that students do on their own
An instructor-led session
Students do the pre-class work before attending the instructor-led session.
The pre-class components introduce topics; the instructor-led components
integrate and practice those topics. That said, even if students never
take the instructor-led session, the pre-class work by itself provides
significant educational value.
Google provides all the materials needed to run your own instructor-led
sessions. If you'd like to facilitate instructor-led sessions for your
organization, see
Facilitating Technical Writing Courses.
Target audience
The target audience for most of these courses is as follows:
Software engineers
Software engineering or computer science students
Engineering-adjacent roles (such as product managers)
Although we don't explicitly aim these courses at technical writers, many
technical writers or people training to be technical writers find these
courses useful. Tech Writing for Accessibility is particularly useful
for technical writers.
Other languages
These technical writing courses are only available in English. True,
many of the lessons in this course are relevant to other languages.
However, certain recommendations that are helpful in English become
culturally or grammatically incorrect when translated.
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