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# Write in the active voice and keep verb and subject close together. | # Write in the active voice and keep verb and subject close together. | ||
# Ask another reader to evaluate your writing. | # Ask another reader to evaluate your writing. | ||
===More | |||
===More on plain language writing=== | |||
* [http://www.cba.org/cba/practicelink/cs/plainlanguage1.aspx CBA PracticeLink: Plain language legal writing] | * [http://www.cba.org/cba/practicelink/cs/plainlanguage1.aspx CBA PracticeLink: Plain language legal writing] | ||
* [http://www.plainlanguage.gov/examples/before_after/index.cfm Before and After Comparisons from www.plainlanguage.gov] | * [http://www.plainlanguage.gov/examples/before_after/index.cfm Before and After Comparisons from www.plainlanguage.gov] | ||
* [http://www.plainlanguage.gov/whatisPL/definitions/Kimble.cfm Joe Kimble, ''The Elements of Plain Language'' in the ''Michigan Bar Journal'', October 2002] | * [http://www.plainlanguage.gov/whatisPL/definitions/Kimble.cfm Joe Kimble, ''The Elements of Plain Language'' in the ''Michigan Bar Journal'', October 2002] | ||
===Editing | ==Editing content== | ||
===Editing a Clicklaw Wikibooks page=== | |||
====How to edit a page ==== | |||
#[[Clicklaw Wikibooks Contributor Guide#Logging in to your new account|Login to your account]] on Clicklaw Wikibooks. | |||
#[[How to Navigate around Clicklaw Wikibooks|Navigate to the page]] that you want to edit. | |||
#Click on the "Edit" tab (to edit the whole page) or click on the "edit" link for a particular section.<br /><br />[[File:Editing_a_page_on_the_wiki.png | border|800px |center| link=]]<br /><br /> | |||
#You can make changes to the text in the edit window, and click on the “Save page” button to save your changes.<br /><br />[[File:Editing_a_page_on_the_wiki_2.png |border| 900px |center| link=]] | |||
====Using wiki codes==== | |||
Clicklaw Wikibooks uses wiki codes, a relatively simple markup language, to present the headings, lists, indented paragraphs and other formatting that give form and structure to a wiki page. For example, to make a numbered list, you put each item on a separate line and start the line with a pound symbol: | |||
{| style="border-collapse: collapse; border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: #000" | |||
|- | |||
! style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px"| This wiki code | |||
! style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px"| Results in this display on the page | |||
|- | |||
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px"| | |||
<tt># One</tt><br /> | |||
<tt># Two</tt><br /> | |||
<tt>## Two point one</tt><br /> | |||
<tt># Three</tt> | |||
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px"| | |||
# One | |||
# Two | |||
## Two point one | |||
# Three | |||
|} | |||
The good news is that there are not very many wiki codes, and many of them (for example, bold, italics, hyperlink) also have buttons in the edit toolbar that you can use that will automatically insert the codes. | |||
The [[Clicklaw Wikibooks Cheatsheet]] features the key wiki codes. Also available is a [[Clicklaw Wikibooks Style Guide]] that highlights key style and word usage for Clicklaw Wikibooks. | |||
== Note about updating resources in Legal Help for British Columbians == | |||
For contributors updating resources for the guide [[Legal Help for British Columbians]], please see the explanatory note on the [[Talk:Resource List|Resource List discussion page]]. (Resources are managed as individual pages that are then automatically consolidated on a single [[Resource List]].) | |||
===Clicklaw Wikibooks Cheatsheet=== (for key wiki codes and shortcuts) | |||
===Commenting on content=== | ===Commenting on content=== | ||