Here you'll find out about our mission, current projects, services, history, standards, methods, writers code, and laws of effective manuals. Use these to jump to a topic or read it all. To harness the power of current and future communications strategies to produce user focused electronic and paper manuals. Improve the existing set of manuals and design and develop new manuals using the existing training technology. Top Standards Members of the Manuals Unit hold themselves to strict standards of writing , contents of a manual , and page layout and conventions .
Standards help ensure consistency of writing and formatting throughout all manuals.
The standard for readability is established to match the audience of a manual. These standards provide minimum requirements about the structure and content of manuals developed by the Manuals Unit. The standards apply to content rather than to style. Standards for style are set by the Government Printing Office Style Manual , the Chicago Manual of Style , and additional standards published by the Manuals Unit. Reports or other related documents.