Writing Guidelines

• The most important consideration in writing for CarrickDojo is the audience.
• Writing should be concise, transparent, intelligible and accessible, using clear and plain language that is comprehensible and suited to people of all ages including young children.
• Clear: Ensure that your writing is clear and simple. In general, use active voice and unambiguous pronouns. Write short sentences, sticking to one idea per sentence. Define new terms, keeping the target audience in, before using them.
• Concise: When writing any document, it's important to know how much to say. If you provide excessive detail, the page becomes tedious to read and it will rarely be used.
• Consistent: Ensure you use the same verbiage consistently throughout the page and across multiple pages.
• For specific technical writing guidelines, the Mozilla's Writing Style Guide is worth a read for anyone creating pages.
• The Irish Government website has a style guide that includes preferred spellings although some of it is a little subjective.

URL: always capitalised. No need to spell out as Uniform Resource Locator (nobody knows what that means anyway). Can also say web address

Irish Government Style Guide