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company logoAbelard Consulting Pty Ltd is a specialist provider of technical writing services, technical writer placement services, and training in technical and scientific writing.

Click here to see our technical writing, FrameMaker and MS Word training courses

  Documentation (technical writing)
Abelard Consulting provides the full spectrum of documentation services: from editing a single document written by others to managing fully out-sourced project teams writing user documentation of many types, in many media, and in many languages.

We have a large team of technical writers, editors, illustrators and translators for work you want to outsource. (Their experience ranges across finance, accounting, telecommunications, software, engineering and electronics.) Alternatively, our recruitment division can provide you with the documentation specialists you need for projects you want to manage in-house. [more]

  Courses
Our training division offers public and custom courses in technical writing, business writing, scientific writing and Adobe FrameMaker (structured and unstructured). Prices start at $495. Training can be delivered at our offices or yours.

New |   Our technical writing course is now available on certain weekends (held over two consecutive Saturdays).

Click here to see a list of the topics in our popular technical writing course.

Early-bird discounts apply to bookings made at least two weeks in advance. [more]

Courses coming soon    [Click a title or red arrow to see the course brochure]

  Melbourne, February 18–19
  Sydney, February 8–9
[Course booked out]
  Brisbane, February 15–16
[Early-bird discount closes Feb. 5]
  Adelaide, February 22–23
  Perth, February 24–25
[Early-bird discount closes soon]

More courses in March.  

  Melbourne February 25–26
  Perth March 1–2

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  Melbourne, February 4–5
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  Recruitment
Abelard Consulting's recruitment division specialises in the placing of technical writers. Our service is unique in a number of ways. For a start, our consultants are themselves experienced technical writers and so are especially adept at accurately profiling job roles. Secondly, through our own longstanding documentation consultancy work we have built up a vast network of technical writers. Thirdly, our peer-to-peer assessment methodology — assessment of applicants by practising technical writers — gives us the edge in filtering applicants, that is, in seeing quickly who really does fit a particular role. Taken together, our approach is designed to give you, the client, a short-list that is the cream of the available talent. [more]

New |  50% reduction in placement fees for trained graduate-entry technical writers. [more]

  Jobs
If you are looking for a technical writer position — contract or permanent — visit our jobs page.

  Bulletin
To read our quarterly bulletin Words, visit our bulletin page. Words has articles of interest to those whose work involves writing and communication (such as articles on language, writing tools, authoring methodologies, professional ethics, and so on).

  Forum
Visit our forum page to learn about austechwriter, the email and web-based discussion forum for technical writers.

  Resources
Our resources page lists numerous online resources that technical writers are likely to find useful.


Abelard Consulting and technical writing news

  technical writing
  writing courses and workshops
  technical writer placements
  project management
  technical editing
  technical indexing
  technical illustration
  localisation and translation

Links to technical writing sites

Words: A bulletin for technical writers

The February 2010 issue of Words, a quarterly bulletin for technical writers and communicators, is now available. Click here for details.

Links to technical writing sites

Professional societies

Abelard Consulting encourages all practising technical writers to join a professional society, such as the Society for Technical Communication, the Australian Society for Technical Communication (Victorian branch or NSW branch) or the Technical Communicators Association of New Zealand.


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