One of the emails that periodically appears in my inbox is from Conscious Style Guide about latest articles. Topics such as unbiased language use are sometimes useful in the process of choosing how to phrase an index entry. So, I thought I share this useful article. The latest was Why We Should Examine our Culinary Vocabulary is well worth reading…
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Unbiased language….
When we’re writing an index we try to reflect the intent of the author with our phrasing of the index entries. Since much of my indexing is technical and factual I had not thought much about biased language in index writing. Usually…. However, on at least on indexing project I really did have to give…