style guides

[LENDA ZIEGLER <NLNDA -at- TTACS -dot- TTU -dot- EDU>]

Date:           November 2, 1994
To:             Any and all editors out there
From:           NLNDA, a graduate student in Technical Communication
Subject:        Style guides

I sure would appreciate it if any editor who reads this
message would respond to this little survey so that I will
have some original research to add to an article I'm
writing. I was told that you can just copy the survey to a
file, fill in the blanks, and then send the file back to me:
nlnda -at- ttacs -dot- ttu -dot- edu -dot-    As you know, the more editors who
respond, the more accurate my statistics will be.  Thanks
again for your help.
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Style guide Survey

1. Your e-mail address:

2. Your job title:

3. Short job description:

4. Your place of business:

5. Name of primary commercial style guide used at your place
of business:

6. Why do you use this one?

7. Do you have a "personalized" style guide (one written
specifically for your business)?

8. Why? or Why not?

9. & 10. From your experience, IF your business has its own
"personalized" style guide, what are the two most-used
entries in it?
(If you don't use a "personalized" style guide, leave 9 & 10
blank.)

11. & 12. From your experience, what are the two most-used
entries in the commercial style guide used at your business?
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Please try to respond before Thursday, November 17, 1994 (my
birthday.)

Thanks so much for your help and time in answering and
returning the survey to me at:

nlnda -at- ttacs -dot- ttu -dot- edu

Lenda