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About DMOS

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  • Copyright notice
  • Welcome
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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
    • Avoid ambiguity
    • Avoid idiomatic or colloquial expressions
    • Avoid unnecessary use of jargon
    • Cite your sources
    • Don’t omit essential words
    • Don’t say more than two things in a sentence
    • Eliminate wordiness
    • Follow standard word order
    • Follow the six basic patterns
    • Forget myths and ignore hearsay
    • Hyphenate to make your meaning clear
    • Make comparative statements parallel
    • One word, one meaning
    • Restrict sentences to one central thought
    • Use commas correctly
    • Use lists
    • Use short sentences for emphasis
    • Use the active voice when possible
    • Use verbs as verbs and nouns as nouns
    • Writing guidelines
  • Why are rules and conventions important
    • Why are rules and conventions important?
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Planning & design

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  • Designing a document
    • Designing a document
    • Document structures
  • Document types
    • Email
    • Environmental study
    • Letter report
    • Persuasive documents
    • Presentation
    • Proposal
    • Public report
    • Technical study
  • 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
    • Appendices
    • Attachments
    • Bibliography or references
    • Conclusions and recommendations
    • Cover and title pages
    • Covering letter
    • Discussion
    • Document control
    • Executive summary
    • Foundation topics
    • Glossary
    • Index
    • Introduction
    • Legal notices
    • List of abbreviations and symbols
    • Lists of figures and tables
    • Preface
    • Table of contents
  • Create an outline
    • Add the themes to each section
    • Create a document skeleton
    • Decide which parts are required
    • Review your design
  • Titles and headings
    • Titles and headings
  • Numbering sections, pages, tables, and figures
    • Always use auto-numbered headings and captions
    • Numbered or unnumbered?
    • Numbering appendices
    • Numbering sections
    • Numbering tables and figures
    • Page numbering
  • 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
    • Don’t leave it too late
    • Proofreading
    • Review your work
    • Tell the story
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Formatting

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  • Abbreviations, initialisms, & acronyms
    • Abbreviation, initialism, acronym, or symbol?
    • Acronyms in headings
    • Common abbreviations
    • Defining acronyms and abbreviations
    • Definite article and acronyms
    • Formatting acronyms and abbreviations
    • Indefinite article and acronyms
    • Plural of acronyms
    • Possessive of acronyms
    • Shortened names and titles
    • Shortened words
    • Spelling out acronyms
    • Using abbreviations and acronyms
    • Using symbols as abbreviations
    • Standard abbreviations
      • Acts and regulations
      • Australian states and territories
      • Bibliographic abbreviations
      • Calendar and financial years
      • Canadian provinces and territories
      • Chemical symbols and compounds
      • Clock time
      • Commercial and legal
      • Compass points
      • Countries and regions
      • Currency
      • Data values
      • Days and months
      • Financial
      • Foreign phrases
      • General abbreviations
      • Geographical
      • Graphical
      • Information technology
      • Initials
      • International organizations
      • Numerical abbreviations
      • Organizations
      • Symbols
      • Time zones
      • Units of measurement
      • Units of time
  • Art, captions, & callouts
    • Appearance and placement of art
    • Cite the source
    • Placement of captions and call-outs
    • Referencing untitled art
  • Bibliographies and citations
    • Citation methods
    • Citing acts, ordinances, bills, and regulations
    • Citing by author-date
    • Citing case law
    • Citing sources of information
    • Citing titles and document details in text
    • Files cited as a data source
    • Formatting documentary notes
    • Formatting references
    • Italic or quotation marks?
    • Reference the whole and then cite the specific
    • Referencing books, printed articles, and conference papers
    • Referencing company reports and unpublished reports
    • Referencing electronic documents
    • Terminology
    • Undated and anonymous works
  • Capitalization
    • Capitalization following a punctuation mark
    • Capitalization guidelines
    • Capitalization in lists
    • Cross-references
    • Minerals and geological terms
    • Place names
    • Technical terms and jargon
    • Title-style rules
    • Titles and headings
    • UI elements
  • Company names
    • Person and number of company names
    • Possessive of company names
    • Referring to companies
  • Computer program elements
    • Formatting code, macros, and scripts
    • Formatting UI elements
  • Coordinates
    • Axis and units
    • Coordinates examples
    • Datum and projection
    • Elevations and RLs
    • Geographic coordinates
    • Grouping digits
    • Negative coordinates
    • Order of coordinates
  • Copyright notice
    • Determining the copyright date
    • Format of copyright notice
    • Need for copyright notice
    • Placement of copyright notice
  • Credits and permissions
    • Attribute the original work
    • Format of credit line
    • Placement of credit line
  • Cross-references
    • Cross-references
    • Cross-references in online documentation
    • Cross-references to art
    • Formatting cross-references
    • Syntax of cross-references
  • Defined terms
    • Code- and rules-defined terms
    • Defined terms
    • How to define a term
  • Equations
    • Complex equations
    • Mathematical symbols
    • Simple equations
  • File names, extensions, and URLs
    • File name extensions
    • Formatting folder names and drive names
    • Literals and placeholders
    • Punctuation after a file name or internet address
    • Quoting data files and electronic documents
    • Syntax of file names and network addresses
  • Footnotes
    • Footnote identifiers
    • Footnotes, endnotes, or bibliography?
    • Numbering footnotes
    • Referencing footnotes
    • Table notes
    • Using footnotes
  • Lists
    • Bulleted lists
    • Labelled lists
    • List style
    • Nested lists
    • Numbered lists
    • Punctuating lists
    • Term lists and glossaries
    • Unnumbered lists
    • Using lists
    • Vertical sentence
  • Job titles
    • Job titles and positions
    • Professional qualifications
  • Measurements
    • Dimensions
    • Hyphenating number and unit
    • Ranges
    • Spelling out units of measure
    • Symbols
    • Use numerals for all measurements
  • Money and currencies
    • Amount, sum, or quantity?
    • Consistency within a category
    • Currency abbreviations
    • Exchange rates
    • Numerals vs words
    • Rates of cost and revenue
    • Rounding currency
    • Thousands, millions, and billions
  • Numbers
    • Adjectival compounds
    • Aligning numbers in tables
    • At the beginning of a sentence
    • Commas and spaces in numbers
    • Compound numbers
    • Fractions as words and decimals
    • Measurements
    • Negative numbers
    • Numbered sections
    • Numbers from examples
    • Numerals vs words
    • Ordinal numbers
    • Ranges
    • Rule of categories
    • Singular vs plural
  • Ornamentation
    • Ornamentation guidelines
    • Ornamenting general text
    • Ornamenting text in user guides (IT)
  • Post-nominals
    • Absorption
    • Degrees and diplomas
    • Formatting
    • Long form
    • Order
    • Professional memberships and accreditations
    • Punctuation
    • Using post-nominals
  • Quotations
    • Attribute to the source
    • Block quotation
    • Carrier expressions
    • Editor’s notes and implied words
    • Errors
    • Formatting quotations
    • Long quotations
    • Omitted words and letters
    • Punctuating quotations
  • Special characters
    • Special characters
  • Symbols
    • Imperial units
    • Non-standard units
    • Plurals of symbols
    • Punctuating symbols
    • SI operators
    • SI prefixes
    • SI symbols
    • SI units
    • Using symbols
  • Tables
    • Capitalization and punctuation
    • Column headings
    • Content
    • Examples
    • Formatting
    • Long tables
    • Numbering tables
    • Pagination
    • Table notes
    • Using tables
    • Wide tables
  • Telephone numbers
    • Telephone numbers
  • Terms of government
    • Terms of government
  • Time
    • Clock time, 24-hour
    • Clock time, general
    • Dates
    • Eras, centuries, and decades
    • Frequency and the prefix bi-
    • Measurement and rates of time
    • Time measurement
    • Time periods, general
    • Time record with seconds
    • Time stamp
    • Time, precision
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Punctuation

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  • Ellipsis
  • Em dash
  • En dash
  • Full stop
  • Other symbols
  • Punctuation hierachy
  • Question mark
  • Semicolon
  • Slash mark
  • Comma
    • At discretion of the writer
    • Don’t separate a restrictive phrase or dependent clause
    • Don’t separate a verb from its subject
    • Don’t use commas in dates
    • End introductory phrases with a comma
    • Format numbers with commas
    • Function of the comma
    • Punctuating a series
    • Punctuating independent adjectives
    • Separate independent clauses
    • Separate non-restrictive phrases
    • Separate transitional words and phrases
  • Parentheses and brackets
    • Formatting parentheses
    • Nesting
    • Other brackets
    • Parentheses
    • Square brackets
  • Quotation mark
    • Placement of quotation marks
    • Single quotation marks
    • Using quotation marks
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Hyphenation

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  • Purpose of hyphenation
  • Compound words
    • Compound words and phrases
    • Compounds of compounds
    • Examples of hyphenated words and phrases
    • Hyphen or dash?
    • Hyphenating compounds
    • Open, closed, or hyphenated?
    • Simplified rules for hyphenating compounds
    • Suspended hyphens
    • Words commonly used in compounds
  • 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
    • Accessible art
    • Accessible documentation
    • Accessible Web pages
    • Accessible writing
  • Americanisms
    • Americanisms
    • Common spelling differences
  • Anthropomorphism
    • Anthropomorphism
  • Art
    • Art
  • Bias-free communication
    • Bias-free pronouns
    • Eliminating bias
    • Ethnicity
    • First Nations peoples
    • Gender-neutral terms
    • People with disabilities
  • English language
    • English language usage
  • Foreign words and phrases
    • Abbreviations of foreign phrases
    • Accepted foreign phrases
    • Avoid non-English expressions
    • Don’t translate jargon
    • Don’t Romanize spelling
    • Maintain hyphenation of original
    • Show foreign words in italic
    • Use an extended font
  • Humour
    • Humour
  • Idioms
    • Idioms
  • Jargon
    • Jargon
  • Privacy
    • Legal requirements
    • Privacy considerations
    • Safeguarding PII
    • Sensitive vs non-sensitive PII
  • Spelling
    • Adding -able, -ability, -ably, -ableness
    • Adding -ed and -ing
    • Adding -ly
    • Adding -ment, -mental, -mentally
    • Adding other suffixes
    • Doubling the final consonant
    • One or two l’s?
    • Spelling patterns
    • Use the main listing and ignore alternative spellings
  • Vulgarisms
    • Vulgarisms
  • Word usage
    • Word usage
  • Writing for translation
    • Avoid ambiguity
    • Avoid idiomatic or colloquial expressions
    • Avoid long and complex sentences
    • Avoid wordiness and jargon
    • Follow standard word order
    • Samples, scenarios, and art
    • Text expansion
    • Use correct terminology and consistent wording
    • Use verbs as verbs and nouns as nouns
    • Writing for translation
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Grammar

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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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Word usage

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Writing and editing tools

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  • Microsoft Word
    • About Microsoft Word
    • Customizing the Quick Access toolbar
    • Fixing a corrupted document
    • Formatting with Microsoft Word
    • Pasting text into a Word document
    • Setting up Word options
    • Typing shortcuts
    • Working with headers and footers
  • Adobe FrameMaker
    • Why use Adobe FrameMaker?
  • AI tools
    • Best practice for AI prompting
    • Guidelines for using AI
    • Risks of using artificial intelligence
    • Uses of artificial intelligence
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Glossaries

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