RESOUR> When in the Army, Being in Style is the Write Thing to Do
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From: "David P. Dillard" <jwne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 22:22:32 -0500 (EST)
Sometimes being in the United States Army can involve manual labor.
The Army Writing Style
<http://www.uwosh.edu/departments/military_science/spring/army_writing.html>
TABLE OF WRITING GUIDES
Writing Guide #1: Writing Effectively
Writing Guide #2: Steps in the Writing Process
Writing Guide #4: Writing simply
Writing Guide #5: Active and Passive Voice
But for your writing to be in ship shape, you may want to visit the Navy
Report Writing Guide
The Write Stuff!
USNA Report Writing Manual On-line
Adapted from the United States Navy Test Pilot School report writing
manual by ENS Mark A. Haas, USN, Class of 1999.
<http://web.usna.navy.mil/~aeroweb/report_writing_giude/>
General Information
Writing Philosophy
Writing Style
Formal Report
Memo Report
Tables-Graphs-Figures
Oral Presentations
Index
Sample Report- Composed by CDR R.J. Niewoehner, USN, Ph.D.
However, if you are still up in the air about writing skills and when to
use that space, one can then consult NASA:
Grammar, Punctuation, and Capitalization
A Handbook for Technical Writers and Editors
Mary K. McCaskill
Langley Research Center
Hampton, Virginia
<http://stipo.larc.nasa.gov/sp7084/sp7084cont.html>
Contents
Preface
1. Grammar
1.1. Grammar and Effective Writing
1.2. Nouns
1.2.1. Possessive Case
1.2.2. Possessive of Inanimate Objects
1.3. Pronouns
1.3.1. Antecedents
1.3.2. Personal Pronouns
1.3.3. Relative Pronouns
1.3.4. Demonstrative Pronouns
1.4. Verbs
1.4.1. Tense
1.4.2. Mood
1.4.3. Voice
1.4.4. Verb Number
1.5. Adjectives
1.5.1. Articles
1.5.2. Unit Modifiers
1.6. Adverbs
1.6.1. Misplaced Adverbs
1.6.2. Squinting Adverbs
1.6.3. Split Infinitives
1.7. Prepositions
1.7.1. Prepositional Idioms
1.7.2. Terminal Prepositions
1.7.3. Repeating Prepositions
1.8. Conjunctions
1.8.1. Coordinating Conjunctions
1.8.2. Subordinating Conjunction
1.9. Verbals
1.9.1. Coordinate Gerunds and Infinitives
1.9.2. Idiom Requiring Gerund or Infinitive
1.9.3. Dangling Verbals
2. Sentence Structure
2.1. Sentence Structure and Effective Writing
2.2. Subjects and Verbs
2.2.1. Clarify Subject
2.2.2. Make Verbs Vigorous
2.2.3. Improve Subject-Verb Relationship
2.3. Parallelism
2.3.1. Connectives Requiring Parallelism
2.3.2. Itemization
2.4. Brevity and Conciseness
2.4.1. Wordiness
2.4.2. Shortening Text
2.4.3. Shortening Titles
2.5. Comparisons
2.5.1. Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs
2.5.2. Ambiguous Comparisons
2.5.3. Comparison Constructions
2.6. Emphasis
2.6.1. Emphasizing With Sentence Structure
2.6.2. Emphasizing With Punctuation
3. Punctuation
3.1. A Functional Concept of Punctuation
3.2. Apostrophe
3.3. Brackets
3.4. Colon
3.4.1. Colons That Introduce
3.4.2. Conventional Uses of the Colon
3.4.3. Use With Other Marks
3.5. Comma
3.5.1. Commas That Separate
3.5.2. Commas That Enclose
3.5.3. Conventional Uses of the Comma
3.5.4. Use With Other Marks
3.6. Em Dash
3.6.1. Dashes That Enclose
3.6.2. Dashes That Separate
3.6.3. Conventional Uses of the Dash
3.6.4. Use With Other Marks
3.7. En Dash
3.8. Hyphen
3.8.1. Word Division
3.8.2. Prefixes
3.8.3. Suffixes
3.8.4. Compound Words
3.9. Italics
3.9.1. Italics for Emphasis
3.9.2. Italics for Special Terminology
3.9.3. Italics for Differentiation
3.9.4. Italics for Symbology
3.9.5. Conventional Uses for Italics
3.9.6. Italics With Typefaces Other Than Roman
3.9.7. Italics With Punctuation
3.10. Parentheses
3.11. Period
3.11.1. Abbreviations
3.11.2. Conventional Uses of the Period
3.11.3. Use With Other Marks
3.12. Points of Ellipsis
3.13. Question Mark
3.14. Quotation Marks
3.14.1. Quoted Material
3.14.2. Words Requiring Differentiation
3.14.3. Use With Other Marks
3.15. Semicolon
3.15.1. Coordinate Clauses
3.15.2. Series
3.15.3. Explanatory Phrases and Clauses
3.15.4. Elliptical Constructions
3.15.5. Use With Other Marks
3.16. Slash
4. Capitalization
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Sentence Style Capitalization
4.2.1. Sentences
4.2.2. Quotations
4.2.3. Questions
4.2.4. Lists
4.2.5. Stylistic Uses for Sentence Style Capitalization
4.3. Headline Style Capitalization
4.4. Acronyms and Abbreviations
4.4.1. Capitalization With Acronyms
4.4.2. Capitalization of Abbreviations
4.5. Proper Nouns and Adjectives
4.5.1. Personal Names and Titles
4.5.2. Geographic Names
4.5.3. Administrative Names
4.5.4. Names of Public Places and Institutions
4.5.5. Calendar and Time Designations
4.5.6. Scientific Names
4.5.7. Titles of Works
4.5.8. Miscellaneous Names
References
Glossary
Index
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And make sure you keep that writing your own and give credit where due:
[PDF] Guidelines on Plagiarism and Paraphrasing in Writing Manuals ...
http://ori.dhhs.gov/multimedia/acrobat/papers/roig.pdf.
If you are still up in the air about writing clearly, here are some plane
writing tips:
Published Aerospace Power Journal - Winter 1987-88
DISTRIBUTION A:
Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
Better Writing: A Heretic's View
Col Samuel E. Riddlebarger, USAF, Retired
<http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/apj/apj87/riddle.html>
Also have a look at this related document:
Effective Writing: A New Millennium-An Old Challenge
Col Samuel E. Riddlebarger, USAF, Retired
http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/au-24/riddlebarger.pdf.
So that your writing will flow when the plane lands, the Naval War College
provides:
Writing Guide
<http://www.nwc.navy.mil/academics/guides/writingguide.pdf>
This document contains a substantial bibliography of publications that
will help writers with finding resources for research and with a variety
of types of writing and forms of publications.
For those who would like to use writing guides that are outside of the
realm of government publications, there is a useful list of these on the
Google Directory.
Style Guides
Arts > Writers Resources > Style Guides
<http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Writers_Resources/Style_Guides/>
Open Directory Project Version
<http://dmoz.org/Arts/Writers_Resources/Style_Guides/>
Related Categories:
Arts > Education > Language Arts > English (1577)
Arts > Education > Language Arts > English > English as a Second
Language (1488)
Games > Internet > Browser Based > Word Games (76)
Reference > Dictionaries (1663)
Dictionary.com provides:
Grammar, Usage & Style
<http://dictionary.reference.com/writing/>
The Internet Public Library provides a useful list at this URL:
<http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/ref73.00.00/>
For the advanced writer or graduate student there is this list
Resources for Graduate Students
<http://www.dissertationadvisors.com/links.htm>
For Tourism and Travel Writers there is this set of web links:
Writing Resources
International Food Wine and Travel Writers Association
IFWTWA
<http://www.ifwtwa.org/writing_resources.htm>
and the Map Writer's organization provides this list:
Writer's Resources
<http://www.mapinc.org/resource/>
A very useful set of tools for writers may also be found here:
Writers Resources Style Guides
<http://www.ability.org.uk/writers_resources_style_guides.html>
Here may be found so useful tools:
Grammar
<http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/dbgrammer.html>
Which above site links to this Google search among other site links
Google Search of Grammar
<http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=
free+grammar+resources>
I hope that the above resources help the readers of this list to do write
by those who read their prose.
Sincerely,
David Dillard Research Librarian
david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
ECP RingLeader
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ringleaders/davidd.html
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
jwne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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