Friday, April 16, 2010
Writing for the Web
I really liked learning about how to write for the web this week - I think it will be helpful for those of us who want to be journalists because everything is transitioning to the Web. As future reporters, we need to know how to write for the web because chances are we will be writing more for webpages than we will for print. I think web-based journalism cheapens the written word in some ways, however, because you have to write in a way that will benefit people who scan the text. The use of anecdotes and sentences with flowery adjectives really has no use in web journalism.
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About the cheapening - I thought of that, too. I honestly think there will come a time, though, when Web sites are both easy to find and clever, rather than a trade off of either. Until then, I guess we'll have to settle for bland-if-informative headlines!
ReplyDeleteWriting for the web is a shorthand way of saying, "writing for speed and clarity." I think that is a good skill to have no matter the platform.
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