The last event of the I4GLASU is an event that introduces the community member to technical writing.
I4G Circles are communities in cities and campuses all over Africa made up of Young Africans passionate about Tech and leveraging it to solve problems.
I4GLASU is one of the I4G Circles.
Ingressive for Good exists to equip young Africans in need with tech skills to help them impact and contribute to the development of Africa, socially and economically. Ingressive For Good (I4G) was created to address the glaring inequities that exist within African tech ecosystems.
We invited Victoria Lo to speak on the topic so as to bring and encourage the I4GLASU community member to start writing technical articles.
Victoria Lo is a freelance developer and a technical writer, she owns a blog at https://lo-victoria.com/
she started by introducing herself before delving into what technical writing is all about
According to her,
Technical writing is a type of writing that conveys information for an intended purpose.
she further by mentioning the three types of technical writing
- step-by-step tutorial
- Explanation kind
- Documentation
Victoria Lo proceeded by to how to get started as a technical writer where she talked about the who, what, where, when, and how of technical writing
she delved into more details on these five words. The event was well informative and some of the attendees ask questions on the aspect they were not clear with which she provided the answers they needed to hear.
she also talked about the anatomy of technical writing
This article is just to talk about the summary of the slide and event recording will be at the end of the article.
we took a virtual group picture The event was rounded up by Oluwaseun Dabiri the I4GLASU lead-ambassador and Fawas Kareem the co-lead ambassador
link to the slide: drive.google.com/file/d/1M2fA2eSQiGhSAM0qZ9..
link to the video recording: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Fj2DyYcXBG6X4DI1yg1k8yy_-Zcqabbe/view?usp=sharing