Nice survey, with more recent cites. I don't recall any of these style guides recommending validation. For any discipline. Kinda drives me nuts. I've always

Nice survey, with more recent cites. I don't recall any of these style guides recommending validation. For any discipline. Kinda drives me nuts. I've always tested my work. Despite all my experience and intent, working with talented people, initial releases are always absolutely shredded by user (audience) feedback. I've done tech writing, speeches, user interfaces, diagrams, charts, press releases, support call scripts, blah, blah, blah. It all gets tested. Gods, I miss the days when we'd at least pretended to do QA/QC.