07. October 2021 | tekom Danmark

Simplified Technical English as the basis for your global documentation needs

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Join us for another online meet-up, where we welcome Shumin Chen for a talk about Simplified Technical English. 

Agenda

1. Welcome and short introduction

2. Simplified Technical English as the basis for your global documentation needs by Shumin Chen

3. Q&A

The event is open to everyone interested in tekom Denmark. The event language is English.

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Presentation description:

ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English (STE) is the international standard for accurate and efficient documentation. STE helps to make technical documentation easy to understand by standardising vocabulary, grammar, and style while letting users control their specific terminology. It includes a set of approximately 53 technical writing rules and a basic general vocabulary dictionary of approximately 900 approved words for writing technical documentation.

May 4th 2021 marks the release of Issue 8 of the Simplified Technical English (STE) specification. A few salient points worth considering, and in the words of the STE Maintenance Group Chair: - Issue 8 concludes the global review process that started with Issue 7 in 2017. While Issue 7, mainly focused on the technical writing rules of STE, Issue 8 is dedicated to the improvement of the sentence examples provided in Simplified English. - There are 706 revised words that correspond to 32% of the total number of dictionary word entries. The sentence examples in the new issue are much easier for technical writers to relate to as the focus is on the correct replacement of unapproved words with related approved words or suitable sentence constructions in STE. - This is also the first time since 1983 that changes are driven by users who actively participated in the general review of the pre-release version. 140 revised words to be exact!

Presentation highlights:

Ms. CHEN Shumin, principal trainer & consultant at Shufrans TechDocs will show conference participants how to use STE correctly and effectively in practice. She will address some of the mistakes commonly found in technical writing and the frequently incorrect use of common STE writing rules based on technical English sentence examples used in Issue 8. The main objective of her presentation is to help her audience simplify technical subjects into straightforward content that is often accompanied by a few long overdue ‘aha’ moments. STE content makes for a strong and positive impact on all document types in the technical field, especially when implemented over a period. Substantial cost-savings in human and machine translations are easily achieved by simplifying your technical English content because when sentences are simpler and less ambiguous, they become easier and less expensive to translate. Simplified Technical English (STE) drives this change towards efficient content management, re-use, and ultimately sustainability. Originally developed for the aerospace industry during the 1980s, STE is now widely used also outside the aviation industry, including companies in the defence, diagnostics, electronics, machinery, medical equipment, healthcare, semiconductor, IT, and Hi-Tech industries.

About the speaker:

Since 2006, Ms Shumin Chen has been working as a consultant with customers in various industries worldwide: aerospace & defence, banking, consumer products, healthcare, IT, medical, and fitness equipment. She has helped many companies with their documentation needs, based on standards where possible, and is widely regarded as a leading expert in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English training, aviation documentation and multilingual documentation.

Ms Chen now heads the ASD-STE100 training arm of Shufrans TechDocs. In her current role, Ms Chen continues to focus on the practical implementation of international standards to facilitate the efficient creation and management of multilingual documentation.