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> The style manual covers things like:
> -Document layout
> -Agreed-upon terminology
> -Capitalization standards
> -Product acronyms
> -Trademark information
>
> The procedures manual covers the actual processes, like:
> -How doc projects are initiated
> -How to pull a product sample from stock
> -How to peer edit another writer's doc
> -What form to use when sending a doc to review
> -How to submit a drawing change to our drafting group
> -How to post a doc to our website
> -How to archive the files at the end of the project
Is there any time left for doing your job? While all of these things are
nice to have written down, this is secondary, one-off work. This type of
stuff should be developed in down-times.
And yes, you should be able to write documentation without a formal style
guide and documentation plan. The best style guides emerge naturally out
of writers doing the documentation and making decisions about the material
as it is being written.
Andrew Plato
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