Project:
A Technical Style Guide
for Internal Documentation
Resources
Extra links and resources live on this page. [This can become a great place to link to additional information for your style guide, sites the company agrees are reputable sources to quote from and link to, citation guides, or even tools and apps]
Tools / Apps
The following tools are great for general grammatical and spelling assistance:
- Write your best with Grammarly. focuses more on grammar and general proofreading
- ProWritingAid: The AI-Powered Writing Assistant similar to Grammarly
- Ginger Software | English Grammar & Writing App yet another option
The above offer limited checks for most major grammatical concerns, but you might have to pay for checking longer text or premium features.
The following are more targeted options:
- Hemingway Editor improves readability
- Paraphrasing Tool | QuillBot AI simplifies writing
- https://capitalizemytitle.com simple tool you can bookmark which helps appropriately capitalize titles in different styles.
Citation Guides
[A company would usually choose just one Style Guide to use as a reference for anything not covered in an internal Style Guide]
- American Psychological Association (APA) Style: https://apastyle.apa.org/
- Modern Language Association (MLA) Style: https://www.mla.org/Publications/Style-Center
- Chicago Manual of Style (Chicago): https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Style: https://www.ieee.org/publications/style/index.html
- Council of Science Editors (CSE) Style: https://www.councilscienceeditors.org/resource-library/cse-style-manual/
- American Medical Association (AMA) Style: https://www.amamanualofstyle.com/