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 Manual Styleguide
 Manual Styleguide
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|  Manual Styleguide | Describes how the end-user support manuals should be developed. | 
| Role: | Technical Writer | 
| Enclosed in: | Software Development Plan | 
| Input to Activities: | Output from Activities: | 

The purpose of the Manual Styleguide is to describe the stylistic conventions to be used to develop end-user support materials. A Manual Styleguide gives advice on, and rules for, spelling general and domain-specific terms, sentence style, and technical writing issues.

Manual Styleguides are developed during the Elaboration phase.

A Manual Styleguide is needed if there is a significant amount of user documentation, including both printed and on-line documentation.

Use existing styleguides, such as [HAC97]
and [MOS98], as there are few good books
available on this topic.
 
 
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