How about ..."to format your post. See tag list below." with that being a href to an anchor where it lists "Perl Monks Approved HTML tags" and other links, after the textinput area.
(I'm also a writer, so my English grammar is pretty good.)
In reply to Re^2: Improved instructions
by John M. Dlugosz
in thread Improved instructions
by John M. Dlugosz
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