The Educative Technical Writing Workshop + Coding Black Females

Educative Technical Writing Workshop Coding Black Females

The Technical Writing Workshop brought to you by Educative in parntership with Coding Black females. Upskill your writing and get published in this 4-week, self-lead workshop.

Join the Educative Technical Writing Workshop + Coding Black Females!

There are few areas in our world that allow developers to gain experience writing – the Technical Writing Workshop changes that. Master the art of writing well through this 4-week long, self-lead workshop.

Over the span of the workshop, the Educative Answers team will support you and provide you with the resources you need to:

Join an initial orientation

Learn how to write articles on the Educative platform and utilize Educative's executable code widgets

Choose a topic

Outline your topic

Create a draft

Go through our professional, editorial review process

Get published

Supplement your resume

Have a chance to win a gift subscription to Educative Unlimited and be interviewed for our blog

Timeline

7/5: Get introduced to the workshop, learn the basics of technical writing, and practice what you've learned. A mini-course on technical writing and topics for you to write on during the workshop will be sent out at this time.

7/6: Deep dive into Educative widgets and how to use Docker to make external environments run on Educative.

7/7: First day to start writing -- all topics should be chosen at this time.

7/11: First submission due by midnight BST.

7/19: All reviews sent back to participants.

7/20: Meet-up where participants can ask questions and get help on reviews.

7/24: Second submission due by midnight BST.

7/28: All reviews sent back to participants.

8/1: Meetup to learn about accessible technical writing practices.

8/3: Final submission due by midnight BST.

8/10: All Answers published.

8/18: Winners are announced. [1st place = 1 year gift subscription, 2nd place = 9 month gift subscription, 3rd place = 6 month gift subscription]

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the Educative Technical Writing Workshop?

The Educative Technical Writing Workshops allows participants to level up their writing and coding skills. All submitted articles will receive a thorough technical content review and proofreading review before publication.

Why should I join this workshop?

You will: Improve your grammar, learn how to research, outline, and write an article while gaining technical writing experience. Add your experience in the Educative Technical Writing Workshop to your resume to show off your communication skills to potential employers.

Is the workshop in person?

The Educative Technical Writing Workshop is a remote workshop that is structured and guided by Educative. Although you will write your article on a schedule, it will be up to you to stay on top of the schedule and submit on time.

How are workshop winners chosen?

At the end of the workshop, we encourage you to share your article with your professional and social circles. After 1 week, each article’s views will be tallied and the three articles that received the most views will be chosen as winners. The authors of these articles will receive up to a 1-year gift subscription to Educative Unlimited.

What is Educative?

Educative helps software engineers and their teams increase productivity and reach their potential through text-based courses.

What is Educative Answers?

Educative Answers is Educative’s free, web dev encyclopedia written for devs by devs. Developers from all over look to Educative Answers to answer their questions because Answers are reviewed, trusted, and provide executable code. Visit our landing page to learn more.

What is Coding Black Females?

Coding Black Females is a nonprofit organization whose primary aim is to provide opportunities for Black female developers to develop themselves, meet familiar faces, network, receive support and build relationships through having regular meetups.