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Foreword Today, the way we read and write has changed with the availability of online and mobile resources 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We have all come to expect information that is accessible: easy to find, understand and use or re-use. This third edition of the OECD Style Guide is designed to help you draft and organise your published material so that readers can easily navigate, understand and access OECD analysis, statistics and information. It does so by: roviding basic guidelines to ensure that we present our work in a way • p that meets the needs of our expanding, mostly online, audiences • offering tips on good writing • setting out the standards and conventions that should be used for drafting all OECD information. The rules and conventions are for use by OECD staff working on all OECD communications platforms, whether print or on line, books, articles, webpages, working papers, social media or presentations. They are designed to encourage consistency and clarity. Conventions that are appropriate for one platform and not others have been highlighted. We recommend consulting the most recent editions of the Concise Oxford
English Dictionary and the Oxford Style Manual for details not covered here. Please also refer to the PAC Publishing Guidelines available on http://oe.cd/ pubguidelines.
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