Following an overview of the principles of structured authoring (with a focus on the DITA model), you’ll apply those principles to your own content. Working with the instructor, you’ll physically deconstruct a current publication (or part of one), breaking it down into individual, self-contained, reusable topics. Next, you apply some basic DITA markup to the topics to begin understanding the relationship between the elements and your actual content. After markup, you’ll consider how you could create multiple publications from various combinations of those topics and what kind of changes you might need to make to the topics’ verbiage and organization to maximize their reusability.

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The STC Wisconsin, Four Lakes and Twin Cities communities cooperatively present three DITA workshops in July. Leigh White returns to the Midwest share her DITA expertise. The workshops provide practical, hands-on experience to creating DITA modular, reusable, structured documentation, and ways to assemble topics for different audiences and outputs.