Re: [style guide] abbreviations and acronyms - general best practice

I agree with this approach in a general sense. I would like to caution that
not all participants are up to speed on general writing best practices as
you are, because they may have never written a book, journal, or
professional web content before.

I like the idea of having this stuff somewhere, just not the main focus of
the style guide. Keep main focus specific to WAI web site content writing.



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On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 11:52 AM, Shawn Henry <shawn@w3.org> wrote:

> I made these suggested revisions:
>         https://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/wiki/index.php?title=Style&diff=
> 20359&oldid=20357
>
> However, I'm not convinced that we even want this point in this Style
> Guide at all. It is general best practice, and perhaps it's more clutter
> than helpful?
>
> One idea is that we have a section for reminders of general best practice
> that includes points like this, and that section is separate so it's easier
> for people to focus on the more specific issues?
>
> On 6/30/2017 11:40 AM, Shawn Henry wrote:
>
>> I think that we want this Style Guide to be as short and easy-to-consume
>> as feasible. If so, we'll want to be thoughtful about what we include and
>> what not to clutter it with. For example, maybe we don't need to include
>> obvious things, and certainly we don't want to recreate general writing
>> best practices.
>>
>
>
> Thoughts?
>
> ~Shawn
>
>