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Showing posts with label news online. Show all posts
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Thursday, January 26, 2012
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Online Editing Tips from ACES: Readers Notice Sloppy Writing
I'm not convinced that the web spells the death of decent writing. Sue Burzynski Bullard of the American Copy Editors Society (ACES) recently offered 8 tips to improve online editing, especially for news sites. My favorites:
4. Be transparent. “Tell us what you know and how you know it...and tell us what you don’t know.” (One of my aha! moments in J-school came when a professor told us: what you leave out of the story can bias it as much as what you put in.~ Diane)
and
8. Quality counts. . ."..readers notice sloppiness whether online or in print."
All 8 tips -- all worth reading -- here:
http://www.copydesk.org/resources/2011/tips-for-editing-online
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4. Be transparent. “Tell us what you know and how you know it...and tell us what you don’t know.” (One of my aha! moments in J-school came when a professor told us: what you leave out of the story can bias it as much as what you put in.~ Diane)
and
8. Quality counts. . ."..readers notice sloppiness whether online or in print."
All 8 tips -- all worth reading -- here:
http://www.copydesk.org/resources/2011/tips-for-editing-online
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