RE: How to Use English Punctuation Correctly

["Chris Vickery" <cvickery -at- arenasolutions -dot- com>]

I think "voice" definitely has a place in customer-facing documentation like user manuals. I write the content for our application as well as the documentation, and I try to keep the voice consistent across these different deliverables. Voice can involve many things--using contractions for a more casual tone, etc.

But I suppose it's semantics, really. You can call the concept "tone" or "voice".

"She's using the voice!"

Chris Vickery, part-time Kwisatz Haderach

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<grin> Isn't the voice of TW the voice of reason?
The active voice? :-)
   
  And the Greek-like chorus of marketing, shouting 
an "Amen!" every now and then? 
   
  "Voice" is for literature, not TW.
  The term is a fashion, a synonym for literary style.
Did the fashion of calling a style a voice catch on with student's,
 due to that student propensity to "voice one's opinion"?
The readership of _The Village Voice_?
   
  In _Bird by Bird_, Anne Lamott offers a good, funny dose of what
 it means to find one's writing voice. I'm sure that any TW on this 
  list who has been called by the muse has some favourite book 
  about "How to find your voice, hapiness and a publishing deal".
   
  But in TW? "Declamation", perhaps?
   
  Cheers,
   
  YJ   
   

Lauren <lt34 -at- csus -dot- edu> a écrit :
  This review by Louis Menand [...]
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