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Guide to Concise Writing

King County Editorial Style Manual

What's New!

Below are significant new, updated and improved entries in the King County Editorial Style Manual. Revisions are made to reflect changes in the Associated Press Stylebook, clarification of existing style guidelines, responses to employee questions and concerns, and new guidance on styles not included earlier.

disabled. Item updated--March 26, 2008.
outbreak. Item added--March 26, 2008.
park-and-ride. Item revised--March 26, 2008.
headlines, headings. Added preferred style for capitalization--March 5, 2008.
Plain English Lexicon: A guide to whether your words will be understood. Add free, downloadable resource to plain-language site (under Useful print references)--March 5, 2008.
holidays, holy days. Added examples of other uses--Feb. 5, 2008.
midnight, noon. Clarified style--Oct. 23, 2007.
health care. Item added--Aug. 7, 2007.
sheriff, sheriff's office. Added guidelines for officer titles--May 1, 2007.
hyphen, plurals. Added advice on compound adjectives and modifiers--April 25, 2007.
profanity, other offensive language. Item added--April 13, 2007.
driver license. Item added--April 9, 2007.
Eight Myths of Writing. Resource added--April 6, 2007.
daylight saving time. Revised to eliminate a hyphen between daylight and saving, following updated AP style--March 28, 2007.
Added new MLK Jr. logo to style manual Word documents. Added links to Martin Luther King Logo page--March 16, 2007.
onboard Item added--March 7, 2007.
King County Editorial Style Guide (DOC, 416KB). Updated--Feb. 6, 2007.
Web site use. Statistics updated for 2006--Jan. 9, 2007.
Martin Luther King Jr. Item added--Jan. 9, 2007.
police, police department; sheriff, sheriff's office. Items clarified--Dec. 5, 2006.
bio-. Item added--Nov. 28, 2006.
freeway station. Item added--Nov. 28, 2006.
login/log in, logon/log on. Clarified item--Nov. 3, 2006.
Americans with Disabilities Act, TTY. Style for TTY Relay: 711 revised--Oct. 20, 2006.
midnight. Item revised--Oct. 9, 2006.
King County Graphic Standards & Guidelines. Links updated and added; also added links to Metro Transit Graphic Standards & Guidelines--Oct. 9, 2006.
first-. Item added--Sept. 22, 2006.
headlines, headings. Item revised--Sept. 12, 2006.
verbiage. Item added--July 28, 2006.
dos and don'ts. Item added--July 27, 2006.
people, persons. Item revised--July 6, 2006.
deboard. Item added--June 7, 2006.
SODO, SODO area, SODO district. Item added--June 7, 2006.
color. Item added--May 30, 2006.
high-. Item added--May 30, 2006.
low-. Item added--May 17, 2006.
systemwide. Item added--April 12, 2006.
printout, print out. Item added--April 11, 2006.
King County Editorial Style Guide (DOC, 420KB). Updated--April 11, 2006.
Web Site Use. Information added--April 10, 2006.
Individual Development Classes. Item added--April 3, 2006.
aka. Item added--March 23, 2006.
gay, lesbian. Item updated--March 15, 2006.
ridematch, ridematching, rideshare, ridesharing. Also, RideshareOnline.com. Item added--March 13, 2006.
Added background on developing the county style manual--Jan. 20, 2006.
Plain Language Writing Guide. Added links to other plain-language resources--Jan. 6, 2006.
PDF. Item revised--Jan. 6, 2006.
Healthy Incentives^SM, KingCare^SM. Item added--Dec. 20, 2005.
service mark. Item added--Dec. 20, 2005.
trademark. Details added--Dec. 20, 2005.
PDF. Added alternative statements about downloading Adobe Acrobat Reader--Dec. 20, 2005.
addresses. Added style for naming post office boxes (also see correspondence)--Dec. 1, 2005.
correspondence. Links added for formatting guidance--Nov. 14, 2005.
ratepayer, taxpayer. Items added--Nov. 14, 2005.
charts, tables. Clarified capitalization of titles and headings--Nov. 14, 2005.
numbers. Clarified entry on use of decimal points--Sept. 28, 2005.
fundraising, fundraiser. Revised style, following new AP style--Aug. 19, 2005.
Plain Language Writing Guide. Web links added to Washington state plain-language programs--Aug. 11, 2005.
offline. Item added--July 28, 2005.
Wi-Fi. Item added--June 30, 2005.
abbreviations and acronyms, quotations. Clarified style for use of abbreviations in direct quotations--May 12, 2005.
over-, under-, prefixes. Clarified entries--May 11, 2005.
sky-high. Item added--April 11, 2005.
United States. Revised abbreviation style, following new AP style--March 29, 2005.
Pacific Northwest. Item added--March 28, 2005.
county. Clarified entry--Jan. 31, 2005.
foreign, international. Item added--Jan. 24, 2005.
armed forces. Item added--Jan. 24, 2005.
Plain Language Writing Guide. Added writing guide as a Word document--Dec. 30, 2004.
company names. Clarified entry--Dec. 29, 2004.
Guidelines for Using King County E-mail(internal link). Added link on Resources page and under correspondence and e-mail--Dec. 16, 2004.
numbers. Clarified style for amounts more than a million--Dec. 10, 2004.
international; intl. Items added--Dec. 9, 2004.
us, we. Item added--Dec. 1, 2004.
Plain Language Writing Guide. Web links added to federal agency plain language programs--Nov. 2, 2004.
tribe. Item added--Oct. 21, 2004.
home buyer, home buying. Item added--Oct. 18, 2004.
dimensions. Clarified style for area, size, volume and other units of measurements--Sept. 27, 2004.
exceptions. Revised note about differing styles used in council motions and ordinances--Sept. 20, 2004.
bibliographies and notes; footnotes, endnotes. Items added--Sept. 17, 2004.
graphic design, printing, Web standards. Items added about county graphic design, printing and Web production policies--Sept. 17, 2004.
I, me. Clarified acceptable use of I and me--Sept. 16, 2004.
because, since. Item added--Sept. 15, 2004.
capitalization. Clarified style guidelines when quoting government constitutions, laws, motions and ordinances, and similar documents--Sept. 15, 2004.
fund. Item added--Sept. 2, 2004.
riprap. Item added--Sept. 2, 2004.
ages. Clarified style for ages in months and for inanimate objects--May 21, 2004.
abbreviations and acronyms. Capitalization and punctuation guidelines clarified--May 12, 2004.
What's New page added--May 10, 2004.
breakdown, break down. Item added--May 10, 2004.
e-mail. Item revised--May 10, 2004.
Top 20 Tips added--March 5, 2004.
King County Editorial Style Manual goes online--Feb. 18, 2004.

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