3 Tips from Manual of Style

- Don't Tout
- Use boldface to call out important topics
- Foreign Words

Of most of the tips I read in the Manual of Style, these 3 stuck out to me for a few reasons. "Don't Tout" I think is an important tip because the whole point of Wikitravel is to give information about certain places and where you should go when you're there, not to boast about how great the place is. The reason you're writing about the place is because it's a great place, and the you don't have to reiterate that to the readers.

I like the idea of using boldface to call out important topics also because anything that is bold really gets your point across. It sticks out and it instantly tells your reader that it's important. I know from personal experience in textbooks when reading I used to look for the bold words and phrases because I figured they were the most important.

Even though this site is devoted to describing places around the world, it is important that the writer doesn't use foreign words, because that will definitely confuse the reader. Even though that word may be apart of the culture you have to make sure to put it's English equivalent, because from a reader's standpoint, if I'm reading about a place I don't know about, chances are I won't know what that word means either.