Style Guides

Subject: Style Guides
From: "Christina Dubach" <christinadubach -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 09:52:05 -0500

Hi guys,

I graduate with a BA in technical communication in two months. I have a job
preparing a small finance company (around 100 employees) for their first SAS
70 Audit. I found the dialogue about "log in" "log out" and "log on" "log
off" very interesting. Someone mentioned choosing a style guide and
remaining consistent. I searched for style guides, read descriptions, but
there were so many...

I am the only writer in the company, and will probably remain the only
writer for a while. The departments I will be documenting are:
programming, accounting, billing, collections, data entry, due diligence,
cashiering, etc. Should I combine several style guides and create my own
guide? Or is there one style guide that would be perfect for my position?

Basically, I'm a newbie and need all the help I can get. Can someone point
me in the right direction?

Thanks,

Christina Dubach
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