The power of a House Stylesheet: Streamlining document production for companies
With a well-defined House Stylesheet in place, employees no longer waste time searching for appropriate fonts, colours, design elements or spelling patterns.
Read MoreWith a well-defined House Stylesheet in place, employees no longer waste time searching for appropriate fonts, colours, design elements or spelling patterns.
Read MoreThey say there is a book in each one of us waiting to be written. If that is true it
Read MoreMany months ago (in 2019) I read an interesting article by Fay Weldon in a Sunday magazine. She is the
Read MoreIn part 1 I considered why a house style is necessary for a business – for reasons of consistency, brand
Read MoreWhy you need a “house” style By “house” style I mean a writing or editorial style that a company or
Read MoreIn an earlier blog I discussed what proofreaders would normally do as part of their duties. There I touched on
Read MoreIt is always good practice to revise and if necessary completely rewrite text in documents to ensure that they are
Read MoreA pen name, also known as a nom de plume, is an assumed name used by a writer instead of
Read MorePut yourself in your readers’ shoes: how would you feel if you had received a document or publication from someone
Read MoreNext to a plot or central purpose, humour is possibly the next most important ingredient of writing. Perhaps humour would not be welcomed in a textbook on physics or a philosophical discourse, but certainly for fiction, travel books, memoirs, and the like it can be a valuable way of injecting some character and light relief. There are several reasons for this.
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