web-writing

Web Style Guide Online

The Web Style Guide site houses an unabridged, online version of the third edition of Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites, by Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton.

Writing for the Web

This page contains a collection of links to Jacob Neilsen's "research on how users read on the Web and how authors should write their Web pages."

You should bookmark and keep an eye on this page.

Writing Style for Print vs. Web

Jacob Nielsen describes the difference between print style and web style in this way: "Linear vs. non-linear. Author-driven vs. reader-driven. Storytelling vs. ruthless pursuit of actionable content. Anecdotal examples vs. comprehensive data. Sentences vs. fragments."

The rest of the targeted webpage lends support to these findings.

 

Excess Voice

Site information taken from the home and about pages.

Excess Voice is "published by Nick Usborne" and serves up "articles, tips and resources for online copywriters and web site content writers."

If you like the site, "you can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time via the link at the very end of each issue."

 

Literate lives across the digital divide

In the abstract to this article, Iswari Pandey "[complicates] issues of access and the digital divide and [concludes] by making a case for understanding cultural background vis-à-vis political history in order to understand individual literacy practices of students/writers."