These resources respond to some of the common challenges we help our clients with.
This guidance is backed by more than 25 years of experience in communicating complex information, and can be used to supplement existing style and editing resources, such as the Australian Government Style Manual.
Strategy and planning quick reads
Understand ways to make your content more effective and accessible.
- Content strategies – maximising your content’s impactPDF
- Planning content for now and the futurePDF
- The basics of developing good contentPDF
- Understanding users and meeting their needsPDF
- Framing and narratives – how to support your messagingPDF
- More than words and more than design – using an information design approachPDF
- Making content accessible onlinePDF
- Solving accessibility problemsPDF
- Web content format – HTML, Word or PDF?PDF
Structure and writing quick reads
Learn some key tips to improve the flow and impact of your writing.
- Effective structure and IA – your content GPSPDF
- Readability – more than using short wordsPDF
- Tips and tricks for writingPDF
- Avoiding the main writing pitfallsPDF
- Web writing basicsPDF
- Eliminating wordinessPDF
- The language of evidencePDF
- Effective grant applicationsPDF
- First Nations – ethical and respectful stylePDF
- First Nations – Traditional Knowledge and referencingPDF
Style and editing quick reads
Keep our style and editing tips handy for consistent, correct text.
- Bare bones editing checklistPDF
- Stages of editingPDF
- The little marks really matter – punctuationPDF
- Bullet list basicsPDF
- Using numbers and unitsPDF
- Keeping content consistent – some basics of stylePDF
- Compound adjectives – to hyphenate or not to hyphenatePDF
- ‘The’ or no ‘the’ – that is the question for abbreviated organisation namesPDF
- Using words to describe coloursPDF
- Are you speaking my language – common medical prefixes
and suffixesPDF
Visuals and data quick reads
Use our guides to help you produce accurate and engaging visuals and data.
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Comprehensive guides
For in-depth guidance, check out our 40-page guides.
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