Project Design Considerations – Questions
Before adapting or authoring a book, it’s important to establish a plan that will guide the style and design of the new work. The following questions will help to outline the specific characteristics of your book. Each question includes a link to a section in this guide for more information
Design Questions
- What Pressbooks Theme would you like for your book?
- How will your content be structured in Pressbooks? See Development Plan
- What pedagogical elements do you want to open and close your chapters?
- Which citation style will you use?
- How do you want to handle key terms?
- What colour scheme do you want to use in your book?
- How do you want to use text boxes?
- Do you want to include any media in your book?
- Do you want to include any H5P interactives in your book?
- Do you want any ancillary resources included
Notes
- In general, Canadian spellings should be used. Consult Canadian Spelling for first-choice spelling preferences. List any exceptions in your Style Guide.
- Boldface is reserved for key terms within the text body, not for emphasis.
- Italics are for words used as words (e.g., The term vocal cords is often misspelled. What do you mean by nexus?)
- Words that are meant to alert the reader that a term or word is used in nonstandard, ironic, or other special sense should be marked off with quotation marks (e.g., “Child protection” sometimes fails to protect).
- Words that are common expressions and figures of speech should NOT be set off in any way (and in this text, sometimes they are).
“Style Guide” from Ryerson Open Textbook Authoring Guide Copyright © 2017 by Ryerson University is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
