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About DMOS

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Welcome

Effective writing

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What is effective writing?
The importance of clarity
- The importance of clarity
Key principles
- Key principles
Guidelines for effective writing
Why are rules and conventions important
- Why are rules and conventions important?

Planning & design

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Designing a document
- Designing a document
- Document structures
Document types
Plan before your write
- Plan before you write
Know your audience
- Know your audience
Unintended audiences
- Be aware of unintended audiences
The parts of a document
Create an outline
Titles and headings
- Titles and headings
Numbering sections, pages, tables, and figures
Don't overload the reader
- Don’t overload the reader
Follow the corporate QC process
- Follow the corporate QC process
Creating an index
- Creating an index
Writing tips

Formatting

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Abbreviations, initialisms, & acronyms
Art, captions, & callouts
Bibliographies and citations
Capitalization
Company names
Computer program elements
- Formatting code, macros, and scripts
- Formatting UI elements
Coordinates
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Credits and permissions
Cross-references
Defined terms
Equations
File names, extensions, and URLs
Footnotes
Lists
Job titles
- Job titles and positions
- Professional qualifications
Measurements
Money and currencies
Numbers
Ornamentation
Post-nominals
Quotations
Special characters
- Special characters
Symbols
Tables
Telephone numbers
- Telephone numbers
Terms of government
- Terms of government
Time

Punctuation

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Apostrophe
Colon
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Ellipsis
Em dash
En dash
Full stop
Other symbols
Punctuation hierachy
Question mark
Semicolon
Slash mark
Comma
Parentheses and brackets
Quotation mark

Hyphenation

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Purpose of hyphenation
Compound words
Prefixes and suffixes
- Hyphenating prefixes and suffixes
- Simplified rules for hyphenating prefixes and suffixes
- Common prefixes and suffixes
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Language

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Accessible documentation
Americanisms
- Americanisms
- Common spelling differences
Anthropomorphism
- Anthropomorphism
Art
- Art
Bias-free communication
English language
- English language usage
Foreign words and phrases
Humour
- Humour
Idioms
- Idioms
Jargon
- Jargon
Privacy
Spelling
Vulgarisms
- Vulgarisms
Word usage
- Word usage
Writing for translation

Grammar

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Ambiguity
Conjunctions
Contractions
- Contractions
Dangling modifier
- Dangling modifier
Gerunds
- Gerunds
Modal verbs
- Modal verbs
Mood
- Mood
Negative construction
- Negative construction
Nominalization
- Nominalization
Nouns
- Nouns
Number
- Match the number of the verb to its actor
- Singular collectives
Paragraphs
Parallelism
- Parallelism
Person
- Person
Plurals
- Plurals
Possessives
- Possessives
Prepositions
Pronouns
- Pronouns
Sentences
Set-offs
Speech vs writing
- Speech vs writing
Tense
Tone
Verbs
Voice
Wordiness

Word usage

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Writing and editing tools

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Microsoft Word
Adobe FrameMaker
- Why use Adobe FrameMaker?
AI tools

Glossaries

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Abbreviations and symbols
- Abbreviations and symbols
Grammar
Mining
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Ambiguity
- Beware of dangles
- Causes of ambiguity
- Don’t omit essential words
- End an introductory phrase with a comma
- Make sure that the object of the pronoun is obvious
- Use commas correctly
- Use modal verbs with care
- Use the word that most closely describes your meaning
Conjunctions
- Beginning with a conjunction
- Like, with, and then
- Precede by a comma
- Using conjunctions
Contractions
- Contractions
Dangling modifier
- Dangling modifier
Gerunds
- Gerunds
Modal verbs
- Modal verbs
Mood
- Mood
Negative construction
- Negative construction
Nominalization
- Nominalization
Nouns
- Nouns
Number
- Match the number of the verb to its actor
- Singular collectives
Paragraphs
- Introduce the theme in the first sentence
- Introduce the topic in the first paragraph
- One theme per paragraph
- One thought per sentence
- One topic per section
- Present information in a logical order
- Use continuity devices to make your writing flow
Parallelism
- Parallelism
Person
- Person
Plurals
- Plurals
Possessives
- Possessives
Prepositions
- Beginning with a preposition
- Ending with a preposition
- Grammatical conventions
- Stacked prepositional phrases
- Types of prepositions
Pronouns
- Pronouns
Sentences
- Six basic patterns
- Standard word order
- The parts of a sentence
- Use the form that best reflects its importance
Set-offs
- Don’t over-use set-offs
- Em dash or parentheses?
- Nesting set-offs
- Punctuating set-offs
- Using set-offs
Speech vs writing
- Speech vs writing
Tense
- Avoid complex tenses
- Tenses
- Use the appropriate tense
Tone
- Abbreviations
- Acronyms
- Contractions
- Informal vs formal
- Person
Verbs
- Gerunds
- Infinitive
- Participles
- Transitive and intransitive verbs
- Use simple tenses in the active voice
- Use strong verbs
Voice
- Converting passive to active
- Use the active voice whenever possible
- Voice of headings
- When to use the passive voice
Wordiness
- Awkward phrasing
- Causes of wordiness
- Filler words and phrases
- Many-to-one
- Nominalizations
- Passive voice
- Prepositional phrases
- Redundant information

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