The Writing Lab Guide

This repo is a guide to 18F's internal Writing Lab for submitters and editors. You can learn more about the Writing Lab in this blog post or below. This guide is maintained by 18F's Content Guild.

The Writing Lab is a virtual writing center where you can get personalized help from members of the 18F editorial team, which includes members of the Content Guild, the Experience Design Content Team, and the Outreach Team. We’re here to provide short-term, ad-hoc writing and editing help for anything you need.

What we do

We offer four types of help:

• Generative — help coming up with and fleshing out ideas for a piece of writing.
• Developmental — help structuring and planning a piece of writing.
• Stylistic — help shifting the voice and tone of a piece you’ve already written.
• Copy editing — help copy editing your finished piece of writing.

We’re ready to help with any kind of written content including emails, site copy, guides, presentations, talking points, blog posts, and more.

Public domain

This project is in the worldwide public domain. As stated in CONTRIBUTING:

This project is in the public domain within the United States, and copyright and related rights in the work worldwide are waived through the CC0 1.0 Universal public domain dedication.

All contributions to this project will be released under the CC0 dedication. By submitting a pull request, you are agreeing to comply with this waiver of copyright interest.