LSIS style guide – for use by LSIS staff, associates and contractors

The Learning and Skills Improvement Service is an energetic and inspiring organisation with a forward looking and dynamic attitude to life.

We aim to “communicate clearly and in a plain language” and believe this can be achieved with a clear, simple and consistent editorial style guide that can be used by LSIS staff, external contributors or contractors, who write, edit, proofread or design documents.

Recently updated in line with feedback received, this guide contains the answers to common questions of style with the aim of ensuring consistency and readability across the range of documents we produce. It goes hand in hand with the LSIS brand guidelines. Also in response to demand we have now included a summary version of the style guide which pulls out the Top 10 tips to using the LSIS style.

Most of the points in this guide apply to material written both for traditional channels, such as print, and electronic media, including websites unless otherwise stated.

LSIS style guide - Aug_2011 (PDF, 127 KB)
Do it right - LSIS's house style (PDF, 41 KB)