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Resources
Find below advice and tools to help you to write better for the web.
Have something to add? Please send your suggestions to Jodi.
Articles
- Writing for
the web guidelines by Sun Microsystems, which includes results from
'web writing' research, and advice. (2009)
Books
- Krug, S. (2005) Don't
Make Me Think, 2 nd Ed . Upper Saddle, New Jersey : Pearson
Education / New Riders Press. [ISBN-10: 0321344758]
- McGovern, G. (2007). Killer
Web Content. London : A&C Black Publishing.
[ ISBN-10: 071367704X]
Survey Tools
- Survey Monkey
Easy to use - and free for surveys of 10 questions or fewer that
require little analysis.quizzes.
United Nations
guidelines
- UN
Correspondence Manual (link to the UNHQ Intranet). Last updated in
2000, this manual provides style guidelines and examples for writing
letters, memos, note verbale, faxes, and more.
- UN
Editorial Manual Online This is a very useful document
which is frequently updated. Look here for the most recent United
Nations spelling list, style and format guidelines for reports,
and more.
Vocabulary
- One Look
This amazing 'meta-dictionary' allows you to search over 890
dictionaries in one click. A special feature is the 'reverse
dictionary'.
Web references
- Usability.gov, an official U.S.
government website for government web designers to learn how to make
websites more usable, useful, and accessible. Especially good are the guidelines,
which are also a good good example of how to break a long document into
smaller, more consumable parts!
- Useit.com - Jakob
Neilsen's website, which includes many articles.
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