The Official Publication of the STC Technical Editing SIG
Melanie G. Flanders
This is the Information Age. We are relentlessly inundated with more data than we could ever process in a dozen lifetimes. People don’t read documents for the sheer fun of it (unless it’s a good sci-fi or romance novel); they pick them up because they need specific information.
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.