Technical communicators are vital to companies that employ exceptional writers, editors, researchers, and information designers to make technical information accessible. This Ontario College Graduate Certificate will provide you with the skills to design, create, illustrate, and produce content while using authoring tools to manage technical documents on multiple platforms. You will have access to cutting-edge software, and you will study at Conestoga's newly renovated Waterloo campus in the heart of what CBRE (Coldwell Banker Richard Ellis) research has identified as Canada's fastest-growing tech sector. The optional co-op stream includes one co-op work term.

Program Outcomes

Compose messages that are clear, concise, and error free to address the needs of a specified audience and purpose.

Produce print and electronic media that apply industry-led principles of style, design, layout, and format to address client goals and user needs.

Employ requisite levels of the editing process to craft content across a variety of media formats for purpose, concision, clarity, and usability.

Produce text that applies appropriate and stylistic conventions of genre, logic, and rhetoric for a variety of audience types and communication needs.

Integrate credible sources with appropriate industry and/or academic citation styles, to create documents that demonstrate professional rigour.

Address user needs by providing a range of complementary documents in a project cycle.

Apply key functions of leadership and team-orientation to ethically manage the life-cycle of writing projects appropriate to a given medium.

Employ entrepreneurial strategies to identify and respond to new opportunities across the technical communication field.

Combine end-user needs with sound environmental and cost-efficient principles to promote active stewardship in documentation and publication design.

Careers

Graduates will be well-prepared for careers as technical writers, content marketing writers, editorial and proposal document officers, and facilitators/trainers in a variety of sectors including government, health, manufacturing, information technology, engineering, and finance. Job opportunities are available in professional, scientific, and technical services; computer and electronic manufacturing; educational services; government and public administration; administrative and support services; and publishing industries.