Microsoft Manual of Style (Paperback)
| Author: Microsoft Corporation (COR) |
| Format: | Paperback |
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Maximize the impact and precision of your message! Now in its fourth edition, the "Microsoft Manual of Style" provides essential guidance to content creators, journalists, technical writers, editors, and everyone else who writes about computer technology. Direct from the Editorial Style Board at Microsoft--you get a comprehensive glossary of both general technology terms and those specific to Microsoft; clear, concise usage and style guidelines with helpful examples and alternatives; guidance on grammar, tone, and voice; and best practices for writing content for the web, optimizing for accessibility, and communicating to a worldwide audience. Fully updated and optimized for ease of use, the Microsoft Manual of Style is designed to help you communicate clearly, consistently, and accurately about technical topics--across a range of audiences and media. |
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From the Publisher:
Maximize the impact and precision of your message! Now in its fourth edition, the Microsoft Manual of Style provides essential guidance to content creators, journalists, technical writers, editors, and everyone else who writes about computer technology. Direct from the Editorial Style Board at Microsoft?you get a comprehensive glossary of both general technology terms and those specific to Microsoft; clear, concise usage and style guidelines with helpful examples and alternatives; guidance on grammar, tone, and voice; and best practices for writing content for the web, optimizing for accessibility, and communicating to a worldwide audience. Fully updated and optimized for ease of use, the Microsoft Manual of Style is designed to help you communicate clearly, consistently, and accurately about technical topics?across a range of audiences and media. |
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Microsoft Manual of Style, Fourth Edition by Microsoft Corporation - Book Review
By: Greg Barbrick
Blogcritics.org Reviews
Published on: 2/9/2012 4:08 PM
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| The fourth edition of The Microsoft Manual of Style is a reference book for a variety of Microsoft users. As the cover claims it is the “ideal reference” for writers, editors, content creators, and content managers. It is definitely intended for computer professionals, rather than the average user — such as myself. On this point, I was somewhat mistaken. I actually thought that The Microsoft Manual of Style was intended to clarify some of the more obscure terms used in Windows....read the full review | |














