Difference between revisions of "Help:Healthcarepedia Style Guide"
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Revision as of 16:28, 29 October 2016
Contents
Align content with user motivations and goals
- Anticipate the questions that users want answered
- Expect users’ motivations to evolve
- Put the most important information first
- Stay positive
- If appropriate, provide specific action steps and the benefits of taking action
- Create interactive content
Healthcarepedia is a free educational guide to healthcare in the U.S.
Increase accessibility by presenting content in plain language
- Keep paragraphs and sentences short and simple
- Always use language that is familiar to your users
- Use the active voice
- Define complex terms
- Use everyday examples to explain medical or technical concepts
- Write in a friendly, conversational tone
Healthcarepedia content should be accessible--presented in a simple and clear format that fosters engagement
Present accurate content
- Up-to-date
- Cite references from reliable, authoritative sources
- Content must have verifiable accuracy
- Link to appropriate examples
Healthcarepedia content should be accurate, up-to-date, and reliable
Stay objective
- Avoid advocacy and characterize information and issues rather than debating them
- Avoid providing opinion as fact
- Explain major points of view, giving due weight with respect to their prominence in an impartial tone
- Identify opinions as representative of a particular point of view
- Use reliable, well-regarded sources
Healthcarepedia content should be objective; citing from reliable, high-quality, sources
