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IBM Style Guide, The: Conventions for Writers and Editors
The IBM Style Guide distills IBM wisdom for developing superior information that is consistent, clear, concise, and easy to translate. The IBM Style Guide can help any organization improve and standardize content across authors, delivery mechanisms, and geographic locations.
This expert guide contains practical guidance on topic-based writing, writing content for different media types, and writing for global audiences.
Throughout, the authors illustrate the guidance with many examples of correct and incorrect usage.
Writers and editors will find authoritative guidance on issues ranging from structuring information to writing usable procedures to presenting web addresses to handling cultural sensitivities.
The guidelines cover these
The IBM Style Guide can help any organization or individual create and manage content more effectively. The guidelines are especially valuable for businesses that have not previously adopted a corporate style guide, for anyone who writes or edits for IBM as an employee or outside contractor, and for anyone who uses modern approaches to information architecture.
This expert guide contains practical guidance on topic-based writing, writing content for different media types, and writing for global audiences.
Throughout, the authors illustrate the guidance with many examples of correct and incorrect usage.
Writers and editors will find authoritative guidance on issues ranging from structuring information to writing usable procedures to presenting web addresses to handling cultural sensitivities.
The guidelines cover these
The IBM Style Guide can help any organization or individual create and manage content more effectively. The guidelines are especially valuable for businesses that have not previously adopted a corporate style guide, for anyone who writes or edits for IBM as an employee or outside contractor, and for anyone who uses modern approaches to information architecture.
416 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2011
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December 11, 2019
It’s ditto MSTP
A must read book for every person trying to get into Technical Writing. Studying this book is as same as studying MSTP
A must read book for every person trying to get into Technical Writing. Studying this book is as same as studying MSTP
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March 24, 2022required reading for a course.
May 1, 2017
I work as a Technical Writer, and The IBM Style Guide is one of the style guides my team follows.
After discussing the book to find answers to my questions, and reading only the sections most I considered to be most important and relevant, I've decided to read the book cover to cover. The book is clearly written, and I think that any Technical Writer will benefit from reading it. The structure and the examples are very clear, and I found reading it carefully both enjoyable and informative.
Appendix C. Word usage is a bit dated, though.
After discussing the book to find answers to my questions, and reading only the sections most I considered to be most important and relevant, I've decided to read the book cover to cover. The book is clearly written, and I think that any Technical Writer will benefit from reading it. The structure and the examples are very clear, and I found reading it carefully both enjoyable and informative.
Appendix C. Word usage is a bit dated, though.
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