Newsletter Style Guide

The Parish Newsletter is published monthly and distributed by mail and on the web.

Anyone wishing to include an item for an Ascension event must send the complete notice to the officel: <need email address here>@ascensiondallas.org , no later than the day before the newsletter team meets (see calendar for schedule). Please be punctual.

Write your own text, using a standard word processor like "Word", or in the body of an email. Use "Times New Roman" script. Please do not format the notice, or use "publisher" or other similar publishing software, as this has to be unformatted, and sometimes completely re-written to match the Newsletter format.

Keep the notice as short as reasonably possible, but the restrictions are not as stringent as for notices - aim for about 300 words for most items. Pictures are encouraged, these should look good even when quite small, and in black and white or color reproduction (black and white for the print version and color for the website edition. Please run a spell-check on the notice before turning it in! Remember to note when the notice should begin running and when it should stop.