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Detox your Technical Documents; put your Words on a Diet

October 24th, 2009 · Comments Off · Technical Writing

Goethe once wrote to a friend, “If I had more time, I’d have sent you a shorter letter.” Here’s why.

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Style Rules for Job Position Names and Titles in Policies & Procedures

October 24th, 2009 · Comments Off · Technical Writing

Have you struggled with job position names and titles in your policies and procedures (P&P) content? Here are several style rules to follow. Read article.

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7 Ways to Improve Your Technical Writing

October 4th, 2009 · View Comments · How To

Here are seven quick tips to improve the quality of your technical documents. When you write a technical document, consider the following points:

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BBC Style Guide Now Available for Download

October 4th, 2009 · Comments Off · Technical Writing

I have three style guides in the office and have now added this from the BBC. The BBC Style Guide represents some of John Allen’s extraordinary wisdom surrounding the use of English in written and spoken communications.

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How To Mind Your Grammar On The Web

October 3rd, 2009 · Comments Off · Technical Writing

Ben Parr (Mashable) asks: “Say your project manager comes to you with his proposal that will be going out to investors, business partners, and potential clients.
Then you find that your manager has used “4” instead of “four”, “r” instead of “are”, and abbreviations such as lol, atm, and idk.
How would you react? “

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How to convert Microsoft Word documents into Adobe FrameMaker

October 1st, 2009 · Comments Off · How To

This article explains how to convert large files between Microsoft Word and Adobe FrameMaker.In this tutorial, the source file is the file being converted (Word) and target file is the file that it will be converted into (in this case, a FrameMaker file).

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How to Improve your Style Guide

June 22nd, 2009 · Comments Off · How To

How to Improve your Style Guide. PerfectIt does not require any kind of configuration. Once you install it, you can use it straight away to find mistakes in any MS Word document. This article is for users who want to get even more out of PerfectIt by fine-tuning it to search for particular errors or to enforce a style guide.

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Writing a Style Guide: What you need to know

June 12th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To

In publishing and media companies, use of a style guide is the norm. However, style guides can also be useful for any organization that prepares documents for clients and the public. This article is for organizations outside of the publishing industry who can benefit from the introduction of a style guide.

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The Chicago Manual of Style Online Just Got Better!

June 12th, 2009 · Comments Off · Technical Writing

What’s the best style guide to use? I use Microsoft’s technical publications guide for my technical documents but have started to use The Chicago Manual of Style online. It’s been a while since I visited the site and there has been some very nice features added. Like the site says: Welcome to The Chicago Manual of Style Online—the indispensable online reference for all who work with words. For professional writers, book-mark this!

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The Global English style guide: a review

November 17th, 2008 · Comments Off · Tips

Mike Unwalla reviews John Kohl’s The Global English Style Guide over on TechScribe. Many people who do not speak English as a first language struggle to understand English texts. Human translation is expensive. Machine translation (MT) frequently does not work. Global English offers a solution to these three related problems.

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