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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Sandra,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Is there a specific doc you want to create? If creative writing, fiction, nonfiction, poetry—there are some basic formatting rules, but in terms of visuals, sighted people don’t have pics and graphics usually unless cover art on a book. If creating PR material, it depends. News releases, PSAs, briefings, feature articles, etc.—each has basic formatting guidelines, but again, with visuals, it depends on the info. Anything visual would have to be pertinent to the document at hand. For example, you may hyperlink in a doc<span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'>, or use box comments in the margins. If there were necessary info like a chart or graphic, you might include this. But again, this is not for mere visual stimuli but for legit info necessary to the document. At the end of the day, as long as your doc is legible, tidy and properly formatted, that’s what is most important. There are writing guides you can find online and writing style books to learn how to format particular docs. For creative writing, MLA and Chicago manual are standard. For PR and journalism, AP style is used. Purdue OWL online is one of my favorite resources. You can find info on all writing guides. White and Strunk’s writing guide is commonly used among creative writers and is available on BARD.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'>Bridgit<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Stylist <stylist-bounces@nfbnet.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Sandra Streeter via Stylist<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, June 27, 2019 10:53 AM<br><b>To:</b> stylist@nfbnet.org<br><b>Cc:</b> Sandra Streeter <sandrastreeter381@gmail.com><br><b>Subject:</b> [Stylist] basic tutorial on prepping docs for sighted readers<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Please continue your thoughts, everyone—they’ve been really clarifying, and I’d like to hear more specs on what works for what kind of docs. Some of the ideas might be really basic, but I’d rather over-simplify and get info that I already know amongst info I don’t already know, than not have enough direction. Especially interested in elaboration about how devices of formatting can be context-dependent. Anything goes—I could see myself involved in a range of projects, so open to all thoughts. There really does need to be a basic, formally-written tutorial for . For creative writing, White and Strunk’s writing guide is commonly used and is available on BARD., though; who knows, maybe it’ll be one of those jobs where I sense God going, “You see the need—you service it.” As I hope I said before, feel free to write off-list if you have a lot of feedback, so that we don’t bore those whose needs aren’t as basic as my own! Thanks again.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sandra<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'>Something is wrong, I know it, if I don't keep my attention on eternity. May I be the tiniest nail in the <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'> (Mary Oliver) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>