2. Objectives:
• Improve your writing
• Making reading easier
• Writing step by step
a) Designing the document
b) Writing a first draft
c) Effective editing
• Managing vocabulary
a) Passive verbs
b) Abstract noun
c) Unnecessary words
• Writing for the web
• Making it brief and look good
3. Writing
• Writing well requires skill,understanding and good deal of creativity.
• Effective writing seeks;
• For results by making reading easier
4. Writing step by step
• It include three basic steps.
a) Designing the document
b) Writing a first draft
c) Editing the first draft
5. a) Designing the document
• We can break planning a document into five stages.
Goal orientation
Identify the purpose of your document.Make your purpose as specific as
possible.
Identify the readership analysis
analyse their background,priorities,needs for concerns and expectations.
Creating a message
Your document must deliver single message.It’s very important part of
document.
Organising the information
It creates the shape that allows reader mind to understand complexity in most
natural ways.
6. Summarising and grouping the information and making pyramids also make
your documents good.
Constructing an outline
Outline is design to document which gives an overview of entire document in
miniature.
Outline an email(standard mode of cpmmunication)
Outline of a report(to check with reports client that it is developing as they
would wish)
Outline of a letter(the pyramid here is formed by handshakes)
9. c) Effective editing
• The aim of editing is to make the draft easier to read.To edit efficiently,
work on three levels in this order.
Paragraphs
Sentence
Words
10. Managing the vocabulary
• Pay attention in paricular to;
Passive verbs
Verbs can be active or passive.Active verbs are shorter and stronger than
passive verbs.
Abstract nouns
replace the abstract nouns with verbs or adjectives.
Unnecessary words
Some words contribute nothing to meaning.Remove them.It alows new users
to learn the system.
11.
12. Writing for the web
• Writig for the web in many ways like writing for anyother
medium.understanding the features will help you produce more usable text
for websites and web-based documents.
13. Key qualities of web text
• Research sugests that web users feel happiest when web text is
concise,scannable and objective.
• Additionallly readers have voted for:
Clear navigation aids
Evidence of writers credibility
An informal style
15. Hyperlinks: some wording ideas
• Plants in myth and folklore
discover some of the world’s stranges tales about trees and flowers.
• Eco-engineering
how tecnology can help and hinder conservation.
• The making of garden flowers
how breeders created our favourite blooms.
16. Making Web pages brief and good look
• Once you have made web pages you need to make them brief.
• Work at three levels:
Paragraph
Sentence
Word
• Make your print good .Avoid too much highlighting.Use at least 12 ppt
font.They ar easier to scan than text that spreds the full screen.