Archive for January, 2008
Concision fever
Short sentences and concision are essential elements of good Web writing. As a writer obsessed with concision – wishing to downsize any text to one powerful word – I’m mentally rewriting every long phrase I see. Recently, I was doing so with the opening phrase of “Fever”*, a captivating Canadian short story from Sharon Butala: [...]
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I came across a couple of new things in “Writing for and about the Internet,” a chapter of The Canadian Press Stylebook*. Among them are a wise metaphor of the reader’s online experience, good practices for hyperlinks, and tips to get Web users to read more. Picturing the Webreader In my opinion, the CP gives the [...]
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