RE: Riddle Me This

["Jane Carnall" <jane -dot- carnall -at- digitalbridges -dot- com>]

Bruce Byfield wrote:
> And, if you're a lone writer, there's probably not much point in getting
> too worried about style books anyway - just be consistent in your usage.
> The value of a style book comes in team projects, or with documentation
> that you plan to hand off to someone else.

Peter responded:
>tRUE, [Unless You Have Want to Use Your Work In Your portfolio.] :-)

Nope, even then. The nice thing about standards, as someone on this list
sigs, is there are so many to choose from. Poor grammar, mis-spellings, and
typos would all be bad things to include in your portfolio, but no one would
expect a portfolio of projects completed at other companies to conform to
the style guide at *this* company. If they query issues of style in any
items in your portfolio, providing (as Bruce said above) you were consistent
in your usage, you can honestly say: "That conformed to the documentation
style in use at the company I worked for then."

Jane Carnall
Technical Writer, Digital Bridges, Scotland
Unless stated otherwise, these opinions are mine, and mine alone.


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