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Thirty Tools for Writers |
A compilation of writing tips |
Language, structure, the writing life |
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The Writer's Ten Commandments |
Rules for writers by Canadian novelist Stephen Vizinczey |
How to think, dream, write, rewrite, and live |
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Plain Language Made Simple |
How to make content easily accessible |
Short and simple words, sentences, and paragraphs; clear format |
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Technical writing guide (in PDF format) |
"The goal of technical writing is to communicate ideas clearly and efficiently." |
About technical writing, but also applies to web writing: organization, word choice, sentence and paragraph construction, punctuation, grammar, avoiding wordiness, editing |
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Writing for the Web |
Articles by Jakob Nielsen, author of useit.com |
How users read on the Web, how to write for the Web, improving usability, guidelines |
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Writing and Editing Web Content |
"A three-part article in which we discuss effective web writing, edit a page, and examine mistakes in mechanics." |
Seven Steps to Writing Web Content, You're the Editor, Mistakes Identified |
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Writing Good Web Page Content |
NetMechanic design tip |
The need for an outline, the type of language to use, making content informative, checking your work |
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Web Style Guide: Editorial Style |
Why web reading is different from reading from printed material, and how to write to accommodate these differences |
Organizing your prose, online style, titles and subtitles, link use and placement, references |
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The American-British British-American Dictionary for English Speaking People |
Definitions of words that have different meanings in the UK and the US |
Also discusses accents, dialects, usage, spelling, and more |
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Differences Between American and British English |
Written for ESL (English as a Second Language) speakers |
Use of the present perfect, possession, the verb get, vocabulary, prepositions, past simple/past participles, and spelling |
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Selected Vocabulary Differences
Between British and American English |
British and American vocabulary and expressions translated to the other type of English |
British to American, American to British, British English Translated for Americans, and Brief American English-British English Glossary |
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English Around the World |
Links to pages about varieties of English |
American, Australian, British, and Canadian English, as well as English in India, New Zealand, and other countries |
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The American-British British-American Dictionary for English Speaking People |
Definitions of words that have different meanings in the UK and the US |
Also discusses accents, dialects, usage, spelling, and more |
