The Official Publication of the STC Technical Editing SIG
Melanie Flanders
If you are writing documentation, there is also a need for a style guide, especially when documents have multiple authors. A style guide fosters consistency among writers and across documents and provides editors with a written set of guidelines by which they can instill consistency. The style guide can end disputes among writers, editors, and subject matter experts that arise over consistency issues in documentation.
John Baer
Our language, and especially the language of the technology industry, is constantly being inundated with new words. Some of these words are “legitimate”, and others are merely farcical buzzwords. Who’s to say which are which? I say, “If the word fits, use it!”
Jaime Fuhrman and Stephen Osborne
People Against the Maniacal Proliferation of Acronyms Needs Your Help.
I knew I’d gone too far — that I needed help — when I named my son an acronym. He’s called Jeff, the word made by his initials, instead of James, his actual name.