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Actual for You - How to Use an Editorial Style Guide to Enhance Your Company’s Image
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Newspapers and magazines, as well as many organizations that do not publish academic or technical materials, often prefer “AP,” as it is known. Technical and scientific
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Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote that “foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,” but he would have made an exception when it comes to editorial style. Without it, something is expressed in one way on page 1, but differently on page 6. Or, you have referred to the Director of Sales and Marketing in a brochure, but someone else has written about the Marketing and Sales Chief on a rate card. Are you talking about one person or two?
An editorial style guide ensures that everyone is, literally, quoting from the same page. A style guide can range from a single sheet with very company-specific preferences to an entire book of do’s and don’ts. Instead of starting from scratch, you can start with a standard style guide that covers most situations and supplement it with a list of company-specific preferences.
The four most commonly used style guides are published by the Associated Press, University of Chicago, American Psychological Association, and Modern Language Association. All four provide guidance on how to deal with compound words (for example, “nonprofit” or “non-profit”), numbers (for example, “fifty” or “50”), citation of sources, and a myriad of other issues large and small.
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An editorial style guide ensures that everyone is, literally, quoting from the same page. A style guide can range from a single sheet with very company-specific preferences to an entire book of do’s and don’ts. Instead of starting from scratch, you can start with a standard style guide that covers most situations and supplement it with a list of company-specific preferences.
The four most commonly used style guides are published by the Associated Press, University of Chicago, American Psychological Association, and Modern Language Association. All four provide guidance on how to deal with compound words (for example, “nonprofit” or “non-profit”), numbers (for example, “fifty” or “50”), citation of sources, and a myriad of other issues large and small.
Newspapers and magazines, as well as many organizations that do not publish academic or technical materials, often prefer “AP,” as it is known. Technical and scientific
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An editorial style guide ensures that everyone is, literally, quoting from the same page. A style guide can range from a single sheet with very company-specific preferences to an entire book of do’s and don’ts. Instead of starting from scratch, you can start with a standard style guide that covers most situations and supplement it with a list of company-specific preferences.
The four most commonly used style guides are published by the Associated Press, University of Chicago, American Psychological Association, and Modern Language Association. All four provide guidance on how to deal with compound words (for example, “nonprofit” or “non-profit”), numbers (for example, “fifty” or “50”), citation of sources, and a myriad of other issues large and small.
Newspapers and magazines, as well as many organizations that do not publish academic or technical materials, often prefer “AP,” as it is known. Technical and scientific
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The four most commonly used style guides are published by the Associated Press, University of Chicago, American Psychological Association, and Modern Language Association. All four provide guidance on how to deal with compound words (for example, “nonprofit” or “non-profit”), numbers (for example, “fifty” or “50”), citation of sources, and a myriad of other issues large and small.
Newspapers and magazines, as well as many organizations that do not publish academic or technical materials, often prefer “AP,” as it is known. Technical and scientific
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Newspapers and magazines, as well as many organizations that do not publish academic or technical materials, often prefer “AP,” as it is known. Technical and scientific organizations often rely on “Chicago” or “APA,” while those in the humanities often turn to the “MLA.” The latest editions of these books cover basic computer terminology, but Wired magazine and Microsoft have also published style guides that on these topics.
Your organization perhaps already has a preferred style guide, so ask around. If not, to decide which style guide would work best, think of a few common issues. Go to a book store or the library and turn to the pages that deal with the topic, and decide which treatment would work best for your needs. But the fact is that any style guide should fulfill your needs. The trick is to make sure that everyone who produces copy uses the same one.
Of course, a style guide is not going to cover some of your company-specific preferences or you might make other choices. A common example is capitalizing the names of job titles, which the guides often prefer lower-cased. The solution is to compile a document that lists these preferences and, most importantly, putting in on your organization’s Intranet or otherwise widely distributing it. Date it, as you will probably change and add to the list as new situations arise. You can organize it by topic or alphabetically, or some combination. For example, when I create a sty
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