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Peter wrote:
>
> 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.
> >
> tRUE, [Unless You Have Want to Use Your Work In Your portfolio.] :-)
>
You mean, unless you want to use the style guide in your portfolio? I
never really thought of including style guides in my portfolio, although
I suppose that for jobs in which editing was a requirement they might be
useful.
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Bruce Byfield 604.421.7177 bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com
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