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#23791
Do-It-Yourself Style Guides for All Occasions 
A style guide is a formal set of editorial decisions for a specific set of documents. It can serve many functions, and can apply to many kinds of 'documents'. Whenever you have a number of similar documents to create or edit, a style guide can save time and energy (thus reducing costs), and improve the final product. The contents and structure of your guide can be form-fitted to meet your needs. If you start small and follow these suggestions, you can easily generate a style guide that will be welcomed and used.
Magyar, Miki D. STC Proceedings (1996). Articles>Style Guides
#26195
DocBook Element Quick Reference Card
A one-page reference card for DocBook elements.
dpawson.co.uk (2004). Reference>Style Guides>Documentation>DocBook
#14753
Documentation through the Discovery Process
Kloss describes a process of composing documentation that requires the writer's involvement at every phase of product development.
Kloss, Marilyn B. Intercom (2002). Articles>Documentation>Style Guides
#10768
Documenting Electronic Sources
The Internet is a widely used tool for research, but unfortunately, style manuals contain little information on how to document electronic sources. This page contains links to sources which will help students, teachers, and anybody doing research on the Internet to cite such sources using different styles. Some links come from 'Cyber Citations,' an article by Michael A. Arnzen, which appeared in Internet World in September 1996. Some of the addresses were no longer current and are updated here, and many more have been added.
#24076
This guide is based on the style book which is given to all journalists at The Economist.
Economist, The (2004). Reference>Style Guides>Journalism>United Kingdom
#10807
How to be politically correct without mangling the English language. The goal is that the reader should not notice the writing.
Weber, Jean Hollis. Technical Editors Eyrie (1998). Articles>Writing>Style Guides>Gender
#30486
Editing the Baldridge Quality Award Application
Editing the Baldrige award application requires unique plans for the writing, editing, reviewing, and publishing cycle. The editor’s role includes training nonwriters to write, establishing style guidelines, setting reasonable schedules, and editing each draft.
Hamilton, Delores I. STC Proceedings (1993). Articles>Business Communication>Style Guides
#24671
EERE Communication Standards and Guidelines
The development and dissemination of new communication standards and guidelines are evolving processes that require cooperation, teamwork, and clear communication.
#14699
Blank discusses the benefits of using consistent styles in documentation.
Blank, William. Intercom (2001). Articles>Documentation>Style Guides
#10232
Asserting that one must first know the rules to break them, this classic reference book is a must-have for any student and conscientious writer. Intended for use in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature, it gives in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style and concentrates attention on the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated.
Strunk, William, Jr. and E.B. White. Bartleby.com (1959). Reference>Style Guides>Writing>Rhetoric
#11852
This site is a concise guide to some of the most commonly violated rules of writing, grammar, and punctuation. It is intended for all writers as an aid in the learning and refining of writing skills. Explore each of the rules to see examples of its application, and use the references to find additional explanations and examples on the Web or in print. Look up grammatical terms in the glossary. For a wider variety of information, check related FAQs and other writing resources.
#20464
Like teenagers and salespeople, apostrophes are frequently there when they're not wanted, and not to be seen when they're needed.
#18453
Employee Directory Search: Resolving Conflicting Usability Guidelines
Guidelines conflict on whether to limit intranet search to a single search box or dedicate an additional box to employee directory searches. There's theory to support both guidelines. What's up?
Nielsen, Jakob. Alertbox (2003). Design>Usability>Style Guides
#23503
Engineering Communication Centre
Language Across the Curriculum in Applied Science and Engineering at the University of Toronto helps students to communicate in writing and orally.
University of Toronto (1999). Reference>Style Guides>Engineering>Technical Writing
#14475
Engineering Communicator's Manual
This manual is intended to be used by any engineering student (undergraduate or graduate) who has to complete writing assignments or oral presentations for any course. You will find information on general principles of grammar and style, as well as specific examples of technical writing and presenting. If your communication assignment is for an engineering class, you will want to pay particular attention to the sample documents.
Hart, Hillary. University of Texas. Reference>Style Guides>Engineering
#10328
Establishing a Corporate Style Guide: A Bibliographic Essay 
Deciding whether to establish a house style guide can be a difficult decision for corporate writing departments. Management must decide whether it is worth the time, money, and energy to develop its own specialized style guide when various general style books already exist on the market. And if a company does decide to go ahead and establish a house style guide, what form should the document take? Will the guide be effective? What considerations should be weighed in determining whether house style rules should be established in a particular business? This article surveys several recent studies that can help answer these questions by examining such mediating factors as explanations of why and how a style guide can improve document quality and consistency to the strategies for developing the guide itself.
MacKay, Peter D. Technical Communication Online (1997). Resources>Bibliographies>Style Guides
#13286
Establishing an Editorial Forum
With the advent of the World Wide Web, many areas besides Publications produce documents for outside customers. This paper discusses how to establish and organize a forum to make, track, and publicize company-wide style guidelines.
Gelb, Janice. STC Proceedings (2000). Presentations>Collaboration>Style Guides
#25311
European Union Interinstitutional Style Guide
One of the European Union’s vital tasks is to circulate and disseminate information in 11 languages. People are not generally aware of the scale and complexity of this task, and the ever-increasing amount and multilingual character of the documentation to be distributed, and it is only through continual development of the techniques used and constant rationalisation that the task can be accomplished each day. The Interinstitutional style guide has been produced with these things in mind.
European Union (2004). Resources>Style Guides>Regional>Europe
#14139
This document accompanies the TECHWR-L article 'Developing a Style Guide,' and includes a sample outline of a style guide. Some of the sections include some detailed sample text; others do not. Please note that the examples shown here are not necessarily the 'correct' choices, or the 'preferred' choices, or the 'best' choices; they are simply examples of things to include. Your project may require additional items, especially if your writing will be used on a Web site.
Weber, Jean Hollis. TECHWR-L (1998). Reference>Style Guides
#23435
A discussion about INTECOM's project for researching and establishing English-language documentation guidelines.
Fuchs, Amo and Ronald S. Blicq. TC-FORUM (2000). Articles>Documentation>Style Guides
#22409
Many grammar reference works take what is a relatively simple subject and, with unnecessary expansion and elaboration, turn it into an impenetrably dull experience for the reader. In this article, I'll take a brief look at three books that offer an easy and readable alternative.
GaryConroy.com (1992). Articles>Reviews>Style Guides
#25796
So maybe you do know how to add memory to your computer or program your cell phone, but do you know where to put a comma in a sentence? If you have a sentence followed by a list, do you use a semicolon or a colon? Does the period go inside or outside of quotation marks? How do you keep up with changing rules of grammar and punctuation when you can't remember where to put the apostrophe? People often fear punctuation because the rules have changed and they continue to do so.
Straus, Jane. Grammarbook.com (2004). Articles>Style Guides>Grammar
#10867
Fight the Fog: How to Write Clearly
This guide is intended for all writers of English at large, bureaucratic institutions. Our example here is the European Commission! Whether your job is drafting or translating, here are some hints - not rules - that will help you to write clearly and make sure your message ends up in your readers' brains, not in their bins.
#14336
Finding, Narrowing, Outlining Topics
In a technical-writing course, the ideal starting place is a workplace problem requiring some writing as part or all of the solution. With such a project, the audience and problem are there to help you narrow the topic. However, if you begin with a topic, it's harder to narrow. You are likely to end up with ten-pound textbook on automotive plastics, residential solar energy in the home, or La Niña. Narrow the topic and some careful research—the result will be a practical, useful document that doesn't go on forever. Narrowing means selecting a portion of a larger topic: for example, selecting a specific time period, event, place, people, type, component, use or application, cause or effect, and so on. Narrowing also means deciding on the amount of detail to use in discussing those topics.
McMurrey, David A. Illuminati Online (2001). Academic>Course Materials>Style Guides
#25785
Five FAQs About Business Writing
A few style guide tips for novice business writers.
ULiveandLearn.com (2005). Articles>Writing>Style Guides>Business Communication
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