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Subject:Re: Grammar Question: Ensure or Make From:Howard <howardg -at- SAVVY -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 26 Oct 1995 22:20:35 -0400
1) MAKE SURE wins, for Win or any other use except legal-speak. Clarity
counts above all else. Some may think ensure is a drink for the aged.
Basically, it's a $5 word for a 2-cent thought.
2)Yous ask, "Also, is there such a thing as a writing style that must be
used whenever Windows PC software products are being documented?" Common
sense. Read Strunk and White's _Elements of Style_. It applies to all
writing -- especially our confounded field.
have fun..
-Howard Gold
Tech Writer //Webmaster / Columnist for OVC/Co-Author of IDG's _Internet
Gizmos for Windows_
