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Subject:Re: Pls snd citations re title User Guide From:letoured -at- together -dot- net To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Sat, 31 Aug 2002 10:03:06 -0400
In <074b01c250cd$1185e2e0$6401a8c0 -at- home -dot- com>, on 08/31/02
at 05:02 AM, "Ruby Isaacs" <ruby -at- quendi -dot- ca> said:
>Will you please send me any citations from a style guide, dictionary or
>other reference material that recommends the title User Guide?
>As shown in the following citations, the Microsoft Manual of Style for
>Technical Publications recommends the title User's Guide and The New York
>Public Library Writer's Guide to Style and Usage seems to recommend the
>title Users Manual.
A guide and a manual are not the same thing; A manual hurts if you drop in
on your foot. A guide you have to search for in a stack of papers. See it
now?
>The Microsoft Manual of Style for Technical Publications states: "Title:
>User's Guide
>Audience: End users
>Content: Information about installing and using the product, possibly
>including descriptions of new features. Possibly the only printed book in
>the package."
>The New York Public Library Writer's Guide to Style and Usage states:
>"Although an apostrophe is not correct in terms like the following,
>increasingly it is omitted when the sense of the term is descriptive rather
>than possessive--that is, when for is meant rather than of.
>teachers college
>teachers union
>boys club
>Merchants Bank
>offers club
>travelers checks
>users manual"
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