Web Writing/Editing

AP announces new guidelines for credit and attribution

September 2, 2010

Associated Press Senior Managing Editor Michael Oreskes has announced a new set of guidelines for credit and attribution to the AP staff. The policy, as outlined in a press release, addresses two kinds of situations: Attributing to other organizations information the AP hasn’t independently reported. Giving credit to another organization that broke a story first, [...]

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Oxford English Dictionary: The Internet’s latest victim

August 30, 2010

The Oxford English Dictionary, a massive 20-volumes weighing in at 130 pounds, has been the last word in English for 126 years. The third edition of the OED, the first new edition since 1989, may not ever make it into print, according to the Associate Press. Oxford University Press, OED’s publisher, says that so many people [...]

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24 things you might be saying wrong

August 25, 2010

The Reader’s Digest version of all those confusing words and seemingly random rules you missed in English class.

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You too can write like somebody famous

July 15, 2010

I write like David Foster Wallace, according to I Write Like. The site employs a statistical analysis tool that analyzes a sample of your writing and matches it with that of a well-known writer. Any bit of text will work: blog post, Word doc copy, journal entry—pretty much anything other than a tweet. According to [...]

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33 ways you can become a better writer

July 12, 2010

What can you do to become a better writer? I can think of lots of things: 33 of them in fact: Write everyday no matter what. Edit the hell out of your copy and then edit some more. Listen carefully to everyone you meet, no matter how smart or dumb you think they might be. [...]

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iPad finger painting is more than child’s play

June 30, 2010

Check out artist David Jon Kassan’s paint-by-digits portrait on the iPad. He’s using Steve Sprang’s phenomenal Brushes app.

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Four sites every online writer should know

June 15, 2010

What follows is a list of four sites every Web writer should visit at least once: Poynter Institute’s mission is to train journalists, students, educators and others in online and multimedia writing and editing. While you’re there, check out Roy Peter Clark’s nifty list of 50 writing tools. Purdue’s Online Writing Lab, or OWL, houses [...]

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Writing headlines for searchbots, not readers

May 17, 2010

“Headlines in newspapers and magazines were once written with readers in mind, to be clever or catchy or evocative. Now headlines are just there to get the search engines to notice.” – Taylor Momsen Did Not Write This Headline, by David Carr, The New York Times

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