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Re: Style Guide standards: APA or the Chicago Manual of Style?
Subject:Re: Style Guide standards: APA or the Chicago Manual of Style? From:kcronin -at- daleen -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 30 Jan 2003 11:13:42 -0700
Pete-
I think one line in your post has the answer built in:
> One side, including the president who has a doctorate in Physics and a
> junior salesperson whose girlfriend is a "writer", believe in the APA.=20
The key word in that sentence is "president."
Accept his verdict, and show him that the *content* you were hired to
write -not the style - is what's important to you.
> I didn't realize this would be such a big deal!
It's not a big deal. Unless you make it one. Good luck!
Keith Cronin
If thine enemy offend thee, give his child a drum.
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