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 Specialist provider of technical writing services, technical writer placement services, and training in technical and scientific writing

  Writing courses

Our training division offers public and custom courses in technical writing and scientific writing. Prices start at $495. Custom courses can be delivered at our offices or yours.

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  In-house, on-demand: on-going
  Adelaide June 10–11
  Brisbane August 15–16
  Canberra June 3–4
  Melbourne June 27–28
  Perth June 5–6
  Sydney July 11–12
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  In-house, on-demand: on-going
  Brisbane June 25–26
  Canberra May 30–31
  Melbourne July 25–26
  Perth June 26–27
  Sydney August 21–22
  Adelaide June 13–14
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  Writer-placement services

Abelard Consulting's recruitment division specialises in the placing of technical writers (also known as technical authors or technical communicators). Our service is unique in a number of ways:

  • First, our consultants are themselves experienced technical writers and so are especially adept at accurately profiling job roles.
  • Second, through our own longstanding documentation consultancy work we have built up a vast network of technical writers.
  • Third, 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.

Our approach is designed to give you, the client, a short-list that is the cream of the available talent.

At present we have contractors working in Queensland, Victoria, NSW and WA. The domains straddle many fields: bio-engineering, financials, HR, petroleum processing, fibre optics and mining (both in-house and FIFO).

Note: If your requirement extends only to a junior technical writer, we can provide you with a recent graduate who has had university training in technical writing.

  Writing, editing & indexing

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.

Our services include:

  • fully managed out-sourced documentation projects
  • producing end-user documentation (such as user guides, online help and instructional movies)
  • document design (including the creation of boilerplate, and one-click styling, templates
  • technical and general editing (including copy-edit, structural edit and user-acceptance edit)
  • proof-reading services
  • indexing: back-of-book and online
  • editing of scientific papers, reports and tender responses
  • creating style guides and subject-specific thesauri
  • localisation and translation management
  • technical illustration
  • document conversion (such as Word-to-FrameMaker)


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News

Abelard Consulting has been invited to write the user documentation that will accompany a new Hewlett-Packard graphing calculator.

Abelard Consulting has won a contract to deliver 12 technical writing courses to CISCO Systems

Abelard Consulting has won a place on the panel of preferred editors for the Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry.

   

If you have a query about our services, complete our query form. We will endeavour to respond within two working days.

For urgent enquiries, call us on our Freecall number: 1800 601 116. Calls to this number are free.

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  For more information, call 1800 601 116 (a free call).