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Re: Where is best authority on current Mil Standard practice?
Subject:Re: Where is best authority on current Mil Standard practice? From:John Gilger <bjgilger -at- EMAIL -dot- MSN -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 11 Mar 1998 09:07:04 -0800
Hi Rich,
You wrote:
>Hello to all,
>This is addressed to the subset of technical writers working on military
>manuals. I hope to connect with someone who can direct me to the best
>source of information on preparing technical manuals to meet mil specs. By
>that, I mean a real live person I can put questions to.
When I was in the Navy and writing manuals and procedures, I just plagarized
other manuals. That is, I looked at other manuals similar to the one I was
working on and made the format and style the same. After all, if I copied
from one that was approved and in the system, it was acceptable.
The Mil-Std is a bunch of gooblety-gook, mostly. Find a copy of a manual
addressing a similar topic and lay yours out as close to the same way as you
can.
John Gilger
Independent Wordsmith
Las Vegas, NV
bjgilger -at- email -dot- msn -dot- com
