Talk:Writing clearly

Monolinguals

Thanks for [1]; we need more resources like this. I've just used the link at https://github.com/linuxfoundation/cii-best-practices-badge/issues/230#issuecomment-231141665 --Nemo 17:00, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

MailChimp/Buffer

No opinion on it, but they seem to value https://buffer.com/tone-guide a lot. --Nemo 12:28, 7 August 2016 (UTC)

More complex online resources

There doesn't seem to be much about communicating in English with non-English natives. Maybe https://www.coursera.org/specializations/business-english-speakers has something of what we need people to know. --Nemo 07:52, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

/me reads "business" and shivers --Elitre (WMF) (talk) 08:51, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

Public sector guidelines

Some more from a time when it was fashionable: http://www.matteoviale.it/sslmit/ Nemo 11:45, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

Paragraph length and cohesion

I somehow never noticed this page, even though I deal with such things all the time! I found it thanks to a link from Translatability, which I also discovered only today, which is really, really strange, because I've doing stuff with translatable pages for about twelve years!

Anyway, can we add a more specific suggestion about paragraph length? I also raised it on Talk:Translatability, but it should be a guideline for general writing, and not only for translation.

I suggest saying explicitly that:

1. All the sentences within a paragraph are supposed to be cohesive and discuss the same topic.
2. Paragraphs should usually have up to five sentences. If there are more than five sentence to write about a topic, the paragraph should be split.

Both things are common suggestions in technical writing style guides. Even though the first one is supposed to be kind of obvious, it's nevertheless written explicitly in many guides.

Any other thoughts? Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 14:44, 10 July 2024 (UTC)