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* Avoid chattiness or personal opinion. You can insert your personality in the classroom. | * Avoid chattiness or personal opinion. You can insert your personality in the classroom. | ||
| − | * Use clear and concise language | + | * Keep it succinct. Use clear and concise language |
* Try not to use "you" | * Try not to use "you" | ||
* Start each step with a verb if possible. What is the person '''doing''' specifically? | * Start each step with a verb if possible. What is the person '''doing''' specifically? | ||
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Revision as of 12:08, 22 June 2011
This style guide is intended for use in the development of workshop/application tutorials in the computing wiki.
Contents
Writing guidelines
Technical writing best practices
- Avoid chattiness or personal opinion. You can insert your personality in the classroom.
- Keep it succinct. Use clear and concise language
- Try not to use "you"
- Start each step with a verb if possible. What is the person doing specifically?
- Is it easy to scan for important content?
Formatting conventions
When indicating navigation in the application use bold text and the > to indicate navigational sequence
Example:
- Click Go > Connect to Server
Variable text
Use italics for text that should be replaced by user specific information
Example:
- Enter your username
Punctuation and Capitalization
- Start all numbered steps with a capital
- Do not punctuate the end of bulletted or numbered lists (no periods)
Example:
- This is my first step
- This is my second step
- This is my third step but I need two sentences. See Figure 1
Page layout
- See Tutorials Style Guide - Example Page Layout
- Usage of section headers must be consistent
