Posts Tagged ‘manual of style’

Simplest of style guides

{ Posted on Aug 16 2007 by annegentle }
Ah, simplicity. Elegant. Succinct. Basic. Good. Welcome to ASI, new writer. Here are the basics: Write well, quickly, in the active voice and the present tense. Put punctuation outside the quoted material. Maintain gender neutrality. ("He" and "she": bad. "They": good.) Replace semicolons with periods. Use ...Read More »