The Responsible Communication Style Guide

• From Recompiler Media

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Bram, Thursday
  • Morillo, Stephanie
  • Dash, Ellen
  • Waterhouse, Heidi
  • Chavez, Melissa
  • Moskowitz, Anat

• The words we use to talk about different situations, companies, and people have a huge impact on what we think. While style guides like the Associated Press Stylebook are used in newsrooms and public relations offices alike, they don’t cover identity well—if they mention topics like gender or race at all, they just touch on the surface. Identity is a crucial topic for anyone writing today to get right, especially in fields like technology, where we need to talk about our users and audience in a way they find inclusive and understanding. The Responsible Communication Style Guide covers how to write about five key topics: race, gender, sexuality, religion, and health and well-being. We also show how this approach fits into the work The Recompiler does, and how we can write about technology in the most welcoming and accessible way.

• Date created

  2017-01-01

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Inclusion
  • Responsible Communication
  • Diversity
  • Technology Writing
  • Identity
  • Journalism
  • Style Guide

• Type of Item

  Book

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R38C9RK65

• License

  Copyright © 2017 by Recompiler Media LLC. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations, embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information, address Recompiler Media, P.O. Box 8883, Portland, Oregon 97207.