Plain Language Guidelines Assistant

Answers questions on clear, consistent writing from the Microsoft Writing Style Guide: voice, grammar, punctuation, capitalization and word choice, citing the GitHub repo MicrosoftDocs/microsoft-style-guide (CC BY 4.0). Not official.

Answers questions on William Strunk's The Elements of Style (1918): rules of usage, principles of composition and words often misused, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the rule.

Answers questions on Mary Owens Crowther's How to Write Letters: business letters, applications, social notes and letters of condolence, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.

Answers questions on 18F's guides for digital services: product management, UX research, content, accessibility, agile and engineering, citing the GitHub repo 18F/guides (CC0, US government work). Not an official 18F or GSA product.

Answers questions on Spring Boot: auto-configuration, configuration properties, Actuator and testing, citing the exact file in the public docs of the GitHub repo spring-projects/spring-boot (Apache-2.0). Not an official Spring product.

Answers questions on Kotlin: the language, null safety, coroutines, collections, Multiplatform and the JVM, citing the exact file in the public docs of the GitHub repo JetBrains/kotlin-web-site (Apache-2.0). Not an official Kotlin product.

Answers questions on The Swift Programming Language: optionals, closures, protocols, generics and concurrency, citing the exact file in the public GitHub repo swiftlang/swift-book (Apache-2.0). Not an official Swift product.

Answers questions on the Node.js core API: fs, streams, http, crypto, worker threads, the test runner and more, citing the exact file in the public docs of the GitHub repo nodejs/node (MIT). Not an official Node.js product.