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Rule 3: Use Plenty of Diagrams

Wise Owl training courseware style guide: rule 3 - use diagrams

A picture, it is said, is worth a thousand words, but this understates the truth. Consider this diagram (as it happens it is of the drawing tools in Microsoft Visio 2003), and imagine how long would it have taken to explain these tools in words alone:

Diagram of Visio drawing tools

Wise Owl recommend TechSmith's SnagIt screen capture programme for getting screen dumps, and Microsoft Word for producing manuals - provided that you can cope with Word's foibles, that is.

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