RE: Style Guides

Subject: RE: Style Guides
From: "Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 11:46:28 -0400

Also research how writers and publishers in your industry style things and
create a house style guide that adds to but does not replace your chosen
style guide. It is rare that an organization will use a style guide and not
have its own house style guide that supplements the main guide.

No general guide will have industry-specific terms, which is why you'll need
to read the literature in the industry you're in and choose the style you
feel will be most effective for your own audience.

Bonnie Granat
http://www.GranatEdit.com


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> To: Christina Dubach
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> Subject: Re: Style Guides
>
> Hi Christina
>
> These may help:
>
> - The Apple Publications Style Guide:
>
>
> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Concep
> tual/APStyleGuide/AppleStyleGuide2006.pdf
> - The Microsoft Manual of Style for Technical Publications:
> http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/books/6074.aspx
>


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References:
Style Guides: From: Christina Dubach
Re: Style Guides: From: Yves Barbion

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