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French term or phrase:Conventions d'écriture
English translation:Style guidelines
Entered by: veratek

13:38 Sep 6, 2007
French to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Media / Multimedia / Press
French term or phrase: Conventions d'écriture
Dans le contexte journalistique.

Les conventions d'écriture du journal xxx.
Estelle Demontrond-Box
Australia
Local time: 18:33
Editing conventions OR see options for style manual below
Explanation:
perhaps also:

* style guide/guidelines OR manual of style (conventions)

Style Manual & Writing Guides
This University Library Guide follows The Chicago Manual of Style 15th ed. ... Online Writing Assistant - Paradigm is an extensive online writer's guide and ...
www.calstatela.edu/library/styleman.htm - 15k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this
Lynch, Guide to Grammar and Style
Ernest Gowers's Plain Words is a guide to effective writing from the 1940s for British ... A handy little guide to style, written informally and accessibly. ...
andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/ - 15k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this
Writing Style Guidelines for Printed Materials
Writing Style Guidelines for Printed Materials. A. General Reference Manuals:. Rules of Thumb, A Guide for Writers, by Silverman, Hughes and Wienbroer ...
palomar.edu/guidelines/manual/style/default.htm - 44k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this
MLA Formatting and Style Guide - The OWL at Purdue
MLA style specifies guidelines for formatting manuscripts and using the English language in writing. MLA style also provides writers with a system for ...



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News Writing Style Guide: Newspaper Writing Guide
News writing style guide: newspaper writing Canadian Press style guide.
www.cp.org/books.aspx?id=182 - 71k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

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or also like this:

The Economist Style Guide
Take a quiz based on The Economist's Style Guide... more ... George Orwell's six elementary rules of writing are outlined in “Politics and the English ...
www.economist.com/research/styleguide/ - 103k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

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Neither pedantic nor wild? | Style guide | Guardian Unlimited

What it does not mean is imposing a unified writing style on the newspaper. Many of the reporters, columnists, critics and at least one former editor who ...
www.guardian.co.uk/styleguide/article/0,,181311,00.html - 37k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this
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veratek
Brazil
Local time: 05:33
Grading comment
Thank you for your great help!
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3 +3Editing conventions OR see options for style manual below
veratek
3 +1Writing conventions
Alain Pommet


  

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51 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Writing conventions


Explanation:
Could it be as simple as that?

http://www.editorsoftware.com/plain-english/writing-examples...

Alain Pommet
Local time: 10:33
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4
Notes to answerer
Asker: Could it? ;-))


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Elizabeth Slaney: I think it's as simple as that!
14 mins
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +3
Editing conventions OR see options for style manual below


Explanation:
perhaps also:

* style guide/guidelines OR manual of style (conventions)

Style Manual & Writing Guides
This University Library Guide follows The Chicago Manual of Style 15th ed. ... Online Writing Assistant - Paradigm is an extensive online writer's guide and ...
www.calstatela.edu/library/styleman.htm - 15k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this
Lynch, Guide to Grammar and Style
Ernest Gowers's Plain Words is a guide to effective writing from the 1940s for British ... A handy little guide to style, written informally and accessibly. ...
andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/ - 15k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this
Writing Style Guidelines for Printed Materials
Writing Style Guidelines for Printed Materials. A. General Reference Manuals:. Rules of Thumb, A Guide for Writers, by Silverman, Hughes and Wienbroer ...
palomar.edu/guidelines/manual/style/default.htm - 44k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this
MLA Formatting and Style Guide - The OWL at Purdue
MLA style specifies guidelines for formatting manuscripts and using the English language in writing. MLA style also provides writers with a system for ...



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Note added at 2 hrs (2007-09-06 16:08:10 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

News Writing Style Guide: Newspaper Writing Guide
News writing style guide: newspaper writing Canadian Press style guide.
www.cp.org/books.aspx?id=182 - 71k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 2 hrs (2007-09-06 16:08:45 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

or also like this:

The Economist Style Guide
Take a quiz based on The Economist's Style Guide... more ... George Orwell's six elementary rules of writing are outlined in “Politics and the English ...
www.economist.com/research/styleguide/ - 103k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

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Note added at 2 hrs (2007-09-06 16:09:51 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

Neither pedantic nor wild? | Style guide | Guardian Unlimited

What it does not mean is imposing a unified writing style on the newspaper. Many of the reporters, columnists, critics and at least one former editor who ...
www.guardian.co.uk/styleguide/article/0,,181311,00.html - 37k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

veratek
Brazil
Local time: 05:33
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 15
Grading comment
Thank you for your great help!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Sarah Llewellyn: Style guide is what I would use here. Great ref from The Economist, btw!
21 mins
  -> Thanks, Sarah.

agree  xvsy: 'Editing guidelines' would be my choice.
5 hrs
  -> Thank you.

agree  Silvia Brandon-Pérez
5 hrs
  -> Thank you.
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