DocumentCode
2316314
Title
Do-it-yourself style guides for all occasions
Author
Magyar, Miki
Author_Institution
Colorado Data Syst. Inc., Englewood, CO, USA
fYear
1994
fDate
28 Sep-1 Oct 1994
Firstpage
85
Lastpage
88
Abstract
A style guide is a set of editorial decisions. Most large companies have style guides for their documentation/publication departments, to keep all their documents consistent. This paper discusses types and uses of style guides, and how to create them. A style guide can be as simple as a one-page checklist for a particular type of document, or a boilerplate file on your computer. If you have a number of similar documents to create or edit, making a style guide can save a lot of time and energy, and improve the final product
Keywords
technical presentation; document; document creation; document editing; documentation; editorial decisions; large companies; manuals; one-page checklist; publication departments; style guides; Application software; Assembly; Catalogs; Certification; Computer aided instruction; Data systems; Documentation; Management training; Minutes; Proposals;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Professional Communication Conference, 1994. IPCC '94 Proceedings. Scaling New Heights in Technical Communication., International
Conference_Location
Banff, Alta.
Print_ISBN
0-7803-1936-2
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IPCC.1994.347541
Filename
347541
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