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How to Excel at Writing the Internet Article
© Donna L. Quesinberry
Nov 5, 2004
Many Fourth Estate readers already have an understanding of the tools and devices that will be presented in this article. To those of you who incorporate the ideas that are presented herein already as avid Internet writers with prior HTML experience, please review this article anyhow. Then, if you don't mind, visit the topic discussion board and share your own useful tips I may have overlooked.
For the rest of us, I hope this handful of devices, or Internet tools, when used in the development of your Internet article, provide quick fixes that make Internet writing a greater adventure.
The Internet provides the modern writer with a global audience, and it provides the reader with global access. Therefore, the writing voice on the Internet has to carry a universal tone. This fact, more than any other presented, is the one that every writer grabs from this article. It is not unusual for us to have the presumption that people who read what we write may be familiar with our neck of the woods, our area of a state, our region of a country, our county or province, and our continent. If we pause for a second, we realize an individual in Turkey might be reading this article that I have written in Washington DC (USA). An editor of your Internet article, as part of the global Internet community, may reside within another country or on a totally different continent. If the Internet article doesn't convey a universal tone, no matter how great the meat and potatoes are, it may disappoint and/or sadden a reader who resides in some other location on this great planet of ours. Therefore, the first quick fix toward Internet article success is to envision the world!
In addition to envisioning the world, having a Universal Tone may involve presenting your article text to reflect sensitivity in removing bias from language. The following links provide the APA's overview on disability, sexuality, and race and ethnicity:
The Internet, as a literary vehicle, is just a little more than a decade old, yet it provides authors with an enhanced flexibility that extends beyond previous media formats. Writer's can implement hyperlinks, images, bolding, italics, text sizing, and other HTML devices when they deliver articles through computer monitors. These HTML devices can be fun to incorporate. Thankfully, basic HTML code is simple to learn. A short learning session will have any writer up and running with HTML formatting and readers will applaud your efforts.
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In response to Hey Donna posted by brisbaneartist:
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Well-written and a "must read" for internet writers.
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