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CDC style guide

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  • Alternative Title:
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention style guide ; Centers for Disease Control style guide
  • Corporate Authors:
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
  • Description:
    The CDC Style Guide will help everyone who writes documents ranging from letters to press releases to journal articles. The style guide includes writing guidelines and tips and is designed to save editors and writers time by answering frequently asked questions about grammar, style, punctuation, preferred word usage, and reference styles. In addition, the style guide provides guidelines for producing posters and electronic presentations and for writing for the Web. Finally, the style guide addresses clearance and correspondence procedures, presents reference citation styles, and includes useful appendices.

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-152).

    cdc-style-guide.pdf

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  • Document Type:
    Book
  • Genre:
    Guidance
  • Pages in Document:
    iii, 161 numbered pages
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    urn:sha256:f842b2435fd6d7120ca6170a9e7a2d0a0b197b1cd261092a02147c03e5945294
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    Filetype[PDF - 1.37 MB ]
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