Posts Tagged ‘style guide’

Social media, conversation, and writing style

{ Posted on Mar 24 2010 by annegentle }
What are some pointers for developing a style guide for writing on the social web or for certain social mediums? I discuss style guidance at length in chapter 7 in my book, which is titled Finding Your Voice. In fact, ...Read More »

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 »