Your tone should be welcoming and direct. This starts with Division documents that look professional and offer appropriate tone and content. Orderly and clear presentation of complex information will give readers the best possible chance of understanding and using it. Our guidelines can't cover all matters of style that you'll encounter in your writing. Or you can get advice from the members of the Communications team and support staff.
Different people produce documents in different ways.
New ways of doing business can be challenging. These guidelines provide a basic structure for division documents while still allowing staff, consultants, and project partners to customize their document and its contents. The document samples and other tools will make it quicker and easier to meet Division standards for quality documents. Even partnership projects can easily accommodate the basic principals and format of these styles. First, encourage partners, consultants, and colleagues to review this set of questions and answers and the Style Manual.