On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Karsten Wade wrote: > On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 11:14:53AM -0700, Karsten Wade wrote: >> What is our writing style for the textbook going to be? > > In response, Greg Dek said: > > "Somewhere between semi-informal textbook tone and informal how-to > tone." > > Reading the chapters and thinking about voice consistent, I think that > means we can feel OK with using the second-person pronoun "you", be > sparing but don't sound stilted. Third person references are for > other existing entities, such as upstream projects. For consistency, > we can remove any first-person references.
I agree with this. It sounds right in the little voice in my head. --g -- Educational materials should be high-quality, collaborative, and free. Visit http://opensource.com/education and join the conversation. _______________________________________________ tos mailing list [email protected] http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
