Writing and Rhetoric Resources

Bobby Online Free Portal. This free service allows “you to test web pages and help expose and repair barriers to accessibility and encourage compliance with existing accessibility guidelines.” http://bobby.watchfire.com/bobby/html/en/index.jsp

Considerations When Creating a Web Page. Virginia Montecino, 1996. Though not as recent as some site, this page provides a set of questions that offer a solid framework for approaching the task of hypertext authorship. http://mason.gmu.edu/%7Emontecin/web-page-create.htm

Creating Photo Essays for the Web. Excerpt from interview with Cynthia Carris, picture editor for the online edition of Newsweek, 1996. In this very short passage, Carris gives some insight into the challenges facing editors assembling online photoessays. http://www.cyberbohemia.com/Pages/Bridgepages/cynthiacarris.htm

Decorum. This brief dictionary entry from the online Glossary of Literary Theory provides a definition of decorum as well as succinct examples of the different levels of style. http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/glossary/Decorum.html

Decorum: to prepon. This page from the Forest of Rhetoric provides an overview of the virtues and levels of style. http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Encompassing%20Terms/decorum.htm

How to Badvertise. This section of the Badvertising.org site offers instructions on how to create your own subversive advertisements. http://www.badvertising.org/pages/02%20How%20To%20BADvertise/01%20Create%20your%20own%20Honest%20Ads/01%20Create%20your%20own%20Honest%20Ads.htm

Multimedia Design: Navigation Maps and Storyboards. This page from Multimedia on the net provides the reader with several different options for storyboarding techniques, arranged according to differences in structure. http://www.usu.edu/sanderso/multinet/wwwnavi.html

The Web Style Guide. An on-line version of the Yale Style Guide thatoffers a comprehensive look at designing webpages. http://www.webstyleguide.com/index.html?/contents.html

Writing and Reading Electronic Hypertexts. This page offers links to discussions of interest to both readers and writers of on-line texts. http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/elab/hfl0223.html

Writing for the Web. This Useit.com page provides a variety of links designed to provide background on electronic rhetoric. http://www.useit.com/papers/webwriting/