Style guide

So they write, you know, in a compliant manner that put your best foot forward.

And I always recommend that people, all writers have style guides and AI is a whiz at creating style guides.

In fact, I have a blog about that on our website.

Let's go ahead and take a break and we'll come back and dive into some more of this.

It's all different portals using things and we bring it all together.

So then at the end of a quarter, you can do comparative and data analysis on what, you know, what's the best selling product in Target or what brand or what style guide.

is producing the most sales or what licensee is doing the best.

So it's this data that comes from that

I have just a bunch of things that I've written in my voice.

What, you know, I actually have two style guides.

Um, I have one for, like, social media style things, which I use my blog posts.

Of course you do.

Um, so again, the key takeaways here is I think, like, the writing itself is thinking.

You should be deliberate about what you offload and you do yourself.

The style guides are useful and interesting but aren't gonna be perfect.

Um, you should curate it, and you can iterate, and you can do more, but it's never gonna be perfect.

Right.

And the Associated Press actually developed the AP Style Guide.

And I

use that every day.

So we'll come back to that.

So Maya, another development we've seen actually just as almost as we're recording this isn't to do with Northern Ireland, but it's to do with the BBC and they have updated their style guide.

And there's some elements of it that are helpful to us in terms of actually trying to be able to frame what we're saying clearly, but also in terms of how they're going to think about the coverage.

Do you want to talk us through those?

And if you can't misgender in any way, if you can't in any way say someone is a man, someone is male, then it's just really difficult to report on these stories.

And you end up saying that, you know, that we're being offensive by being clear.

And that brings us to something else in the BBC style guide, which is on the one hand, as you say, they're going to explain what it means when they refer to a transgender woman, that that's a man who identifies as a woman.

That's good.

F. Howard Collins, Author and Printer, Henry Froud.

Chicago University Press, Manual of Style.

T.L. Devine, Correct Composition, The Century Company.

Horace Hart, Rules for Compositors and Printers, Oxford University Press.