Style Guide Revision: Message and Medium - A Case Study  

Creating and revising a corporate style guide is a matter of convincing, as well as showing the users, that publishing documents in a consistent manner is cost-effective. The second edition of the Style Guide for the Savannah River Site reflects the many changes that occurred in the world and at this government site in the last six years. Because documents are processed by individuals using desktop publishing products, this style guide edition was created with input from and for the individual user Topics covered the same ground as the previous edition (i.e., procedures, papers, reports, manuals, correspondence), but one major change was placing the style guide on the site intranet to reduce paper distribution and providing information on electronic publishing.

Phillips, Amy G. and Cathie Witker. STC Proceedings (1997). Presentations>Editing>Style Guides>Case Studies