Resources and References

(Listed in no particular order, but numbered for reference).
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Writing for the Web

  1. "Helping Readers Skim and Scan," National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities, http://nichcy.org/dissemination/tools/webwriting/scanning. Retrieved September 21, 2012.
  2. Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content that Works, Janice (Ginny) Redish, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, an imprint of Elsevier Inc., San Francisco. 2 edition, August 28, 2012.
  3. "The future of reading—digital vs. print" by Motoko Rich, The New York Times reprinted in The Seattle Times, Monday July 28, 2008. Retrieved August 13, 2008. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/education/2008076763_reading28.html
  4. "Writing for the Web" by Bill Hunt. Retrieved from http://webdesignfromscratch.com/copywriting/writing-for-the-web/, January 13, 2016.
  5. "Cringeworthy Words to Cut from Online Copy" by Hoa Loranger on January 17, 2016, https://www.nngroup.com/articles/cringeworthy-words/. Retrieved January 26, 2016.
  6. Put It In Writing by Albert M. Joseph, McGraw-Hill, March 1, 1998.
    Put It In Writing     by Albert M. Joseph, International Writing Institute, Inc., Cleveland, OH, USA 1983.
  7. "Writing for the Web: Guidelines for MIT Libraries" by Nicole Hennig
    Web Manager, MIT Libraries, http://libguides.mit.edu/writing-for-web
  8. "Blah-Blah Text: Keep, Cut, or Kill?" by Jakob Nielsen, Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, October 1, 2007, http://www.useit.com/alertbox/intro-text.html, Retrieved October 10, 2008.
  9. "Applying Writing Guidelines to Web Pages" by John Morkes and Jakob Nielsen, January 6, 1998. http://www.useit.com/papers/webwriting/rewriting.html. Retrieved October 10, 2008.
  10. "How Users Read on the Web" by Jakob Nielsen, Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, October 1, 1997, http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9710a.html. Retrieved October 15, 2008.
  11. "How Little Do Users Read?" by Jakob Nielsen, Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, May 6, 2008.
    http://www.useit.com/alertbox/percent-text-read.html. Retrieved October 10, 2008.
    This is a review of the academic paper by Harald Weinreich, Hartmut Obendorf, Eelco Herder, and Matthias Mayer: "Not Quite the Average: An Empirical Study of Web Use," in the ACM Transactions on the Web, vol. 2, no. 1 (February 2008), article #5.
  12. More collected articles on writing for the web at Neilsen Norman Group: https://www.nngroup.com/topic/writing-web/. Retrieved January 26, 2016.
  13. "Write for the Web", http://www.plainlanguage.gov/howto/guidelines/FederalPLGuidelines/webWrite.cfm, retrieved from PlainLanguage.gov on January 13, 2016.
  14. "Document Checklist for Plain Language on the Web," http://www.plainlanguage.gov/howto/quickreference/weblist.cfm, retrieved from PlainLanguage.gov on January 13, 2016.
  15. "3. The Process of Speaking: What Can It Offer Writing?", from the SelectedWorks of Peter Elbow 2010, Draft chapters from a book, http://works.bepress.com/peter_elbow/27/. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  16. "Understanding Voice and Tone in Writing", By Julie Wildhaber of Yahoo! Style Guide, read for Quick and Dirty Tips podcast by Mignon Fogarty of Grammar Girl, July 1, 2010. Retrieved from http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/understanding-voice-and-tone-in-writing February 1, 2016.
  17. "Consider Your Voice, Tone, and Persona" by Joseph Moxley, Writing Commons, http://writingcommons.org/index.php/open-text/writing-processes/think-rhetorically/716-consider-your-voice-tone-and-persona. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  18. To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth about Moving Others by Daniel Pink, New York: Riverhead Books, 2013, p38.