web-writing
Web Style Guide Online
Submitted by Stan on 23 January 2010 - 12:20amThe 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
Submitted by zardoz on 6 January 2010 - 6:34pmThis 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
Submitted by zardoz on 6 January 2010 - 6:30pmJacob 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
Submitted by zardoz on 5 January 2010 - 10:33amSite 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."
Access(ing), habits, attitudes, and engagements: Re-thinking access as practice
Submitted by Stan on 4 January 2010 - 11:49am
In the abstract to this article, Annette Powell Harris writes,
Literate lives across the digital divide
Submitted by Stan on 4 January 2010 - 11:48amIn 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."
High Access and Low Use of Technologies in High School Classrooms: Explaining an Apparent Paradox
Submitted by Stan on 4 January 2010 - 11:45am
From the Abstract:
Comment: Bridging the Second Digital Divide: What Can Sociologists of Education Contribute?
Submitted by Stan on 4 January 2010 - 11:44am
From the Introduction:
Gender Differences in Information Technology Usage: A U.S.-Japan Comparison
Submitted by Stan on 4 January 2010 - 11:36am
The abstract reads:
Computers and Young Children: Social Benefit or Social Problem?
Submitted by Stan on 4 January 2010 - 11:35am
The abstract reads:
