Designing a training program for a technical editing department
In designing a training program for a technical editing department, the training designer ought to take into consideration the knowledge and skills necessary for the various jobs within the department and the knowledge and skills of typical new department employees. The training designer could then use this information to determine (a) what should be taught to almost all new employees, (b) what should be taught to new employees without any practical experience, (c) what should be taught only to those with special jobs, and (d) what even newly hired experienced editors or writers may need to brush up on. The training designer's next step would be to develop appropriate lessons and present them in a systematic way that (a) first teaches all new employees the knowledge and skills they need to learn so that experienced technical editors can begin actual work assignments relatively quickly and (b) allows the trainer with several new employees to train at once to give these employees at least the first part of their training as a group rather than individually. The inexperienced new staff members would receive additional lessons, which should be designed so that specific lessons can be assigned to new, experienced technical editors exhibiting any weaknesses. The paper discusses how to develop such a program, suggests subjects for specific lessons and sources of information for lesson subjects, and suggests how the trainer should handle the lessons.
- OSTI ID:
- 7056628
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-820503-8; ON: DE83900079
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Society for Technical Communication conference, Boston, MA, USA, 5 May 1982
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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