# Free technical writing courses

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Every software engineer is also a writer. Improve your technical writing
skills by taking one of Google's free technical writing courses.
We've aimed these courses at people in the following roles:

- professional software engineers
- computer science students
- engineering-adjacent roles, such as product managers

The courses are free, fun, and valuable to your career. Thousands of Google
software engineers have taken and loved these courses. Note that these
courses focus on technical writing, not on general English writing or
business writing.

You need at least a little writing proficiency in English, but you don't
need to be a strong writer to take these courses. You will find these
courses easier to understand if you have at least a little background in
coding, though you don't need to be an expert coder.

## Technical Writing One and Technical Writing Two

We generally offer the following courses a few times per year:

- Technical Writing One, which covers the critical basics of technical writing.
- Technical Writing Two, which covers intermediate topics in technical writing.

Both of the preceding courses consist of the following two parts:

- Self-paced online pre-class material
- Virtual live session

Though not a requirement, we strongly recommend studying the self-paced online
pre-class material *prior* to attending a virtual live session. Click one of
the following links to access the self-paced online pre-class material:

- [Technical Writing One](https://developers.google.com/tech-writing/one)
- [Technical Writing Two](https://developers.google.com/tech-writing/two)

## Technical Writing for Accessibility

We occasionally also offer the following course:

- Technical Writing for Accessibility, which covers how to make your documents more accessible to everyone.

Technical Writing for Accessibility does not provide any pre-class material,
so just show up and enjoy the class. That said, we do offer a
[self-study version of Technical Writing for Accessibility](https://developers.google.com/tech-writing/accessibility/self-study)
as an alternative to the instructor-led class. The self-study and
instructor-led versions of this class cover very similar material.

## Requirements to attend a virtual live session

To attend a virtual live session, you need to join the class using a
[Google Account](https://www.google.com/account/about/) with access to
Google Meet and Google Docs.

## Audio

If the class audio is hard to understand, you can
[turn captions on](https://support.google.com/meet/answer/15077804?sjid=8423306274853906632-NA)
in Google Meet.

## Facilitators

Some of the public courses listed in the "Schedule" section are
facilitated by people who don't work for Google. We are very grateful to these
volunteers! As these volunteers are not Google employees, Google can't accept
any responsibility for false or misleading statements made during these public
classes.

Thank you to all the facilitators who led technical writing classes
and to all of our wonderful students.

## Schedule

We don't offer a way to preregister for virtual live sessions. To attend a
virtual live session, consult the following table and click the appropriate
Google Meet link at the specified time.

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| Course | Date | PT | ET | UTC | Google Meet link | Facilitator |
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| Technical Writing One | Wed. Feb. 11, 2026 | 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1:00 PM - 3:30 PM | 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM | [Google Meet](https://meet.google.com/seb-ufow-oww) | Barry Rosenberg |
| Technical Writing Two | Tue. Mar. 3, 2026 | 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1:00 PM - 3:30 PM | 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM | [Google Meet](https://meet.google.com/aya-aprx-ozv) | Barry Rosenberg |

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### Time Zones


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- **PT:** United States Pacific Time
- **ET:** United States Eastern Time
- **UTC:** Coordinated Universal Time

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If you don't live in one of the preceding time zones, consider entering the
phrase *my time zone in UTC* into a search engine.