Parlor Press LLC, 2011. — 158 p. — (Open Education Materials).(This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License and are subject to the Writing Spaces Terms of Use).Description
The Writing Spaces Web Writing Style Guide was created as a crowdsourcing project of Collaborvention 2011: A Computers and Writing Unconference. College writing teachers from around the web joined together to create this guide (see our Contributors list). The advice within it is based on contemporary theories and best practices. While the text was originally written for students in undergraduate writing classes, it can also be a suitable resource for other writers interested in learning more about writing for the web.Contents:
About.
Contributors.
Licensing.
Introduction.
I Know How to Write Papers. Does Any of That Stuff Apply Online?
What’s the Same When Writing for the Web?
Writing for the Web: What’s Different?
What Will I Find in this Guide?
Writing in the Genres of the Web.
What Is a Blog? What about Tumblr? What about Twitter?
Are Notes on Facebook the Same as a Blog?
Twitter Only Gives Me 140 Characters!?
What the Heck?
What Is a Wiki? Is It a Blog?
What Are Reddit and Digg?
How Can Facebook Help to Promote My Web Writing?
What the Hell Is RSS?
The Rhetorics of Web Pages.
Hyperlinks Are the Tubes of the Internet.
Page Titles, Headlines, and Subheaders, Oh My!
Damnit, Jim, I’m a Writer, Not a Graphic.
Designer! (Or, Who Gives a Crap?).
Web Writing Style Guide.
You Can’t Write for the Web without Working with Visuals.
WTF (Why This Font?).
How Can I Use Video on my Site?
Jazzing Up Your Web Pages: The Good, the Bad, or the Ugly?
Not Everyone Can See Your Graphics.
It’s Not Plagiarism If It’s on the Web, Right?
In the End, It’s All About the Code.
Learning More About Code.
Resources
Credits
