The Tongue and Quill

Abstract

The Tongue and Quill is dedicated to every man and woman in today's twenty-first century Air Force who will ever sling ink at paper, pound a keyboard, give a briefing, or staff a package to support the mission. Currently, The Tongue and Quill is widely used by Air Force military and civilian numbers, professional military school educators and students, and civilian corporations around the United States. This handbook together with AFM 33-326, Preparing Official Communications, will provide the necessary information to ensure clear communications written or spoken. This revision was accomplished by using the Microsoft Word 6.0 desktop publishing system. It merged portions of AFI 37-160, Volume 5, and deletes copyrighted cartoons, quotes and art. It also adds quotes, art, editing word lists, parts of speech, computer layout and design, wordsmithing marks, stages of a meeting, Federal Government resume, display dot, punctuation rules, capitalization rules, number rules, phonetic alphabet, computer citations, copyright details and reference abbreviations. Finally, it modifies military briefings to discuss meetings in general; expands draft and edit, message, resume, mechanics of writing and research; and updates research sources, active listening and phone machines.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 30, 1997
Accession Number
ADA404949

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Secretary of the Air Force

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Business Administration
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Electronic Mail
  • Employment
  • Geography
  • Health Services
  • Information Systems
  • Medical Personnel
  • Operating Systems
  • Personnel Management
  • Recreation
  • Students
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Warfare
  • Web Browsers

Fields of Study

  • Education

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Computer Science.
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.