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Tips For Freelancers
• 10 rules for successful freelance features
• Structuring a feature story
From South African Freelance Journalists Handbook
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Handbook For Better Writing
This guide — intended for college students — includes sections on organization, mechanics, style, logic and rewriting.
From Amherst College
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Step-By-Step Web Writing Guide
Includes:
• Writing for the Web
• Advice for Web writers
• What writers do
From The Web Writer
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Web Guide To Web Writing
Overview and collection of annotated links including:
• An introduction to hyperlinks writing style
• Writing in a conversational tone
• Writing headlines, learning from newspapers
• Journalism challenges in an interactive age
From Robert Stewart
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Writing For The Web
Setting up Web sites and appropriate writing style for the web including:
• Brevity and titling
• "A combination of journalism and advertising"
• Creating icons and labels
From A List Apart
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Web Page Usability
Web writing advice from usability expert Jacob Nielsen:
• How users read the web
• Applying writing guidelines to web pages
• Detailed study materials and exercises
From Useit.com
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Basic Document Writing For The Web
• Writing in an inverted pyramid style
• Typography and screen designs
• Print vs. screen quality resolution
• Testing the quality of designs
From Good Documents.com
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Diversity Style Guide
 Prepared by ethnic journalists' groups, this style guide covers acceptable and appropriate terms for people and issues relating to ethnicity, race and sexuality.
From News Watch Project, Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism
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South Asian Stylebook
Style guide and encyclopedia for covering South Asia and the South Asian disapora.
From South Asian Journalists Association
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On-Air Styleguide
Pronunciation, usage and grammar rules from U.S. National Public Radio.
From NPR
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"The Elements Of Style"
Classic U.S. text on the rules and principles of writing and composition.
From Bartleby.com
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Grammar And Writing Guide
Basics of grammar and sentence construction for U.S. English.
From Capital Community College
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Strategies For Local TV News Stories
Articles, tip-sheets and video examples including:
• Including children's voices
• Seven habits of effective storytellers
• Covering topics like transportation, courts, urban development
From Project for Excellence in Journalism
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Writing For The Radio
Guides and tips to help journalists improve their newscasts, including:
• Broadcast sentence structure, leads and teases and using numbers
• The different newscast styles
• Organization, preparation and performance
• Reporting public meetings; using polls and surveys
From Newscript.com
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National Public Radio Guidelines
Intended for U.S. National Public Radio, but helpful for radio journalists everywhere, includes:
• Pronunciation, Usage and Grammar
• Production Guidelines
• Ethical Issues
• Legal Issues
From NPR
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