Re: Style Guide standards: APA or the Chicago Manual of Style?
We recommendeded that if a company could
not afford the money or resources for development of
a totally dedicated style guide, they could use Chicago
(or RMF) but with a supplement for items specific to
their house style.
<nod, nod>
At my last fulltime gig, I gave my (non-writer) boss a Style Decisions page as part of my weekly status report. It gave him something to refer to when another manager or developer bitched that I'd replaced their impressive passive-voice paragraph-based procedures with brief explanations, steps and diagrams/screen shots or a marketing rep complained that there wasn't enough visual variety on the page <g>. And by the time my boss was laid off, the company had a pretty decent corporate style guide.
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References:
RE: Style Guide standards: APA or the Chicago Manual of Style?: From: Bill Swallow
RE: Style Guide standards: APA or the Chicago Manual of Style?: From: Kat Nagel, MasterWork Consulting
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