You don’t have to be a journalist to write, today almost everyone in the corporate is faced with writing for business. From a simple E-Mail message to a more complicated Policy and Procedure involved an extensive art of ‘writing’.
I was reading Writing Exceptional Policies and Procedures by Stephen B. Page (ISBN: 9781929065035) – (Chapter 6). Author of the book explained more about how to set the heading and other parts of the document in MS Word.
I see a very great disconnect in the ‘Art of Writing’. With more and more Word processing in the market, the author is forced to learn to typeset the document rather than concentrate on the ‘Writing’. I feel that we are focusing our energy in the wrong direction. While the author’s main job should be the content of the document and the job of a typesetter should be the layout of the document.
The author should decide,
- Section Headings
- Body of the document
- Other references, etc
The typesetter should decide
- The layout of the document
- Font Styles
- Headings
There is a tool for just that, it is called
