corporate magazine standards
- Feed this page talks
more about their _concept_ of writing as opposed to their standards...
intelectual (or educational) standard info...
- The Text Encoding
Initiative (TEI) is an international project to develop guidelines for
the preparation and interchange of electronic texts for scholarly
research, and to satisfy a broad range of uses by the language industries
more generally. (all this quoted from their site.)
They say: "Electronic texts are most obviously different from printed ones
in that the former contain markup or encoding, which makes explicit
various features of the text, so that they can be efficiently processed.
Printed texts adopt a variety of similarly-motivated conventions (use of
typeface, organization of the carrier medium etc), but these are not so
readily processable as the tags of a formal markup scheme." (http://www.uic.edu/orgs/tei/info/teij31/WHAT.htm)
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Computer Mediated Comunication Mag CMC.. I think this is more of an
intelectual than a corporate, but I'm not entirely sure. This is their
style page.
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writing standards page for a web conference -- Cyber Conference
general online writing information:
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MLA documentation style for online citations
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"Consise, SCANNABLE, and Objective: How to write for the web" by Jacob
Nielsen, an essay, with many useful links.
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Writing for the Web
--at Sun microsystems... also by Jacob Nielsen
You can double the usability of your web site by
following these guidelines: for two sample sites studied in Sun's
Science Office, we improved measured usability by
159%
and
124%
by rewriting the content according to the guidelines.
Writing for the Web is very different from writing for
print:
- 79% of users scan the page instead of reading
word-for-word
- Reading from computer screens is 25% slower than from paper
- Web content should have 50% of the word count of its
paper equivalent
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Guide to Web Style at Sun Microsystems.
"point your browser at ... One cannot point programs at sites. I
don't even want to think about the
metaphor that would allow this."
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gooddocuments.com Lots of good stuff, especially in their philosophy
pages...
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contentious, a web journal about web writing
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Online-Writing Discussion list for those who write, edit and produce
for the online medium
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The Fifteenth Computers and Writing Conference
--links to previous years as well
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Tips for writing on the web
--from cornell University
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Writing for the World Wide Web
by Carl Thress of Sundog Media
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Layout and Prose Style when Writing for the Web
--for a class at the UofGorgia, mostly quotes _HTML for Dummies_
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Context: Web Vs. Print Writing
An article in "Contentious" about the importance of context in web writing.
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Web Style Guide at Yale university
Internet Jargon Links
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Netscape's Directory of Internet Glossaries
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Yahoo's Directory of Internet Dictionaries
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Lycos's listing of Internet Glossaries
- he New Hacker's
Dictionary or the "Jargon File" has been published by MIT press, but
can be found online...
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Third-Age Tech Terms
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About.com's Guide to Cyberlingo
is not nearly as specialized as most sites, but does a good job of short
overview.
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Jargon Scout
is a great cool jargon site. (The premise is that they're trying to catch
new jargon _before_ wired does.)
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A Smile on the Web
is a directory of Emoticons or Smileys
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The Jargon Dictionary
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Net Spurs language evolution... in the USA today tech report.
other web-writing related links:
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virtu(re)al.news@cwrl
interesting newsletter at the computer writing labs
(writing labs are minus the /newsletter)
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the 'bluefile' online... education doccuments
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list of schollarly journals online.
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CCM, or Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine
--this page in particular points to their issue (june 1997) devoted to
--writing on the web.
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Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
- Xia Li and Nancy B. Crane (1993),
Electronic Style: A Guide to Citing Electronic Information
(Westport: Meckler.)
--a book in print!
- Wired Style : Principles of English Usage in the Digital Age by
Constance Hale (Editor), Wired (Editor)
--another refference book...
- Computer-mediated communication : linguistic, social, and
cross-cultural perspectives / edited by Susan C. Herring.
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Kairos, A Journal For Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments
--as near as I can tell, this is out of the University of South Dakota
Less Applicable...
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PRE/TEXT:A Journal of Rhetorical Theory
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Internet resources for Technical Communicators
--LOTS of links to instructional and refferentia pages
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Journal of Composition Theory online