Ah, simplicity. Elegant. Succinct. Basic. Good.
Welcome to ASI, new writer. Here are the basics:
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Write well, quickly, in the active voice and the present tense.
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Put punctuation outside the quoted material.
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Maintain gender neutrality. (“He” and “she”: bad. “They”: good.)
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Replace semicolons with periods.
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Use numerals for all numbers.
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Make cross-references target-neutral.
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Insert AIT variables.
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Publish Word documents or HTML files only.
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If it’s not here, look to The Microsoft Manual of Style for Technical Publications.