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Technical Writing & Design Certificate

Increase Your Employability with an Extra Credential
  • 15

    Credit Hours

  • $91.7 K

    Median 2024 Pay for Technical Writers, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

  • 109

    Among Public National Universities, U.S. News & World Report

Find your career in:

Write proposals, reports and other corporate communications.

Communicate scientific research to the public or a professional audience.

Apply your writing skills to modern technological infrastructure and means of communication.
Use AI platforms to process and relay specific information toward targeted objectives.
Write and design technical materials that relay clear instructions and are intuitive to operations and use.

Create content for digital platforms.

Use your writing skills to report news in a variety of formats.

Learn To

Develop solutions to address communication problems and serve audience needs

Write with information and communication technologies (ICT) and artificial intelligence (AI) tools

Optimize communication and design for targeted audiences

Write and design copy in a range of genres for organizations

Apply your skills in the fields of business, technology, sciences and more

I channel the brand personality of my company to target audiences on various platforms. I learned the tools and methods I use daily in my career from the professional writing program at UNCW.
Taylor Moore ’22
Technical Writing and Design Certificate Program Overview
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