Writing - Internet Resources

"...a sloppy manuscript or poor grammar can be a warning sign of bad science." (Source: How to quickly spot dodgy science; https://theconversation.com/how-to-quickly-spot-dodgy-science-65160)

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• 7 Common Grammar Myths You'll Never Fall For Again Hubspot.com
• 13 Hilarious Memes About the Importance of Grammar 10/2016
• 16 of the Worst Typos, Grammatical Errors & Spelling Mistakes We've Ever Seen Hubspot.com
• 20 of the Worst Typos, Grammatical Errors & Spelling Mistakes We've Ever Seen 6/2017
• 20 Misused Words That Make Smart People Look Dumb
• Grammar Police: 30 of the Most Common Grammatical Errors We All Need to Stop Making 11/2016
• Do You Really Need That Exclamation Point? [Flowchart] < Hubspot.com
• English Grammar – Grammar lessons, exercises, rules
• Grammarcheck.net Online grammar checker
• Guide to Grammar & Style Rutgers University
• Is There a Connection Between Bad Grammar and Negative Online Reviews? 2/2018
• Modern Language Association
• Quickanddirtytrips.com Grammar Girl
• Serial Comma
• Strunk's The Elements of Style
• The Grammar of Online Reviews - Is There a Connection Between Spelling Errors and Negative Online Reviews? 2/2018
• Think Grammar Doesn't Matter? It Could Be Holding You Back From a Promotion Hubspot.com 3/2015
• This Embarrasses You and I* Grammar Gaffes Invade the Office in an Age of Informal Email, Texting and Twitter WSJ.com 2012
• Writing for Business and Pleasure
• Writing Numbers

Journaling

Graphic source: http://www.dailydot.com/via/i-lived-by-ben-franklin-schedule/

6 Ways Keeping a Journal Can Help Your Career How To Turn Sadness Into Creativity If You Want Better Mental Health, You Should Use Your Journal In This Way 2/3/2017 Write it Down, Make it Happen | 3 Journaling Habits to Help Your Career

Journalism

Graphic source: http://www.zdnet.com/article/how-weaponized-social-media-is-crippling-democracy-and-why-were-helpless-to-stop-it/

Letter Writing

• To Whom It May Concern: Do All Formal Letters Have to Start Like This? 5/2017

Linguistics

• Commonly Misused Phrases That Will Make You Sound Unprofessional 1/2018
• Language study reveals best words to use when selling products 4/2016
• Why Do People Hate the Word 'Moist?' The Science Behind Word Aversion 11/2017
• Why People From Manchester Are Mancunians, Not Manchesterians Demonyms are vital to our conceptions of ourselves, but the rules behind them can be pretty messy. 7/2017

Microsoft Word Help

• 5 easy Word tips that every user should know Techrepublic.com
• Entering and editing text in a Microsoft Word document
• How to Automatically Format an Existing Document in Word 2013 Howtogeek.com
• How to manage Word styles like a pro Techrepublic.com
• Keyboard shortcuts for Microsoft Word Microsoft.com
• Six tips for fitting Word content on a single page Techrepublic.com
• Interactive: Word 2003 to Word 2007 command reference guide Microsoft
• Microsoft Office Templates
• Using Keyboard Shortcuts in MS Word

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Patient Education Materials

• 7 words (and more) you shouldn’t use in medical news
• Clean Up Your Mess - A Guide to Visual Design for Everyone Visualmess.com
• Health Literacy Online - A guide to writing and designing easy-to-use health Web sites

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Plagiarism

• Automatic Paraphrasing: A Problem for Academia? 3/2017
• Debunking the Accidental Plagiarism Excuse 8/2016
• How to Avoid Plagiarism Wisc.edu
• How to Cite Sources & Not Steal People's Content on the Internet Hubspot.com 7/2015
• How to Use an Writing Cleanroom to Avoid Plagiarism 8/2016
• Plagiarism Tutorial Usm.edu
• When a 'Remix' Is Plain Ole Plagiarism Digital technologies make it easier for people to copy the work of other artists—yet the same tools make it more likely for them to get caught. 5/2017

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Readability Resources

• Educational Stage
• Extract Text and Calculate the Reading Level of Any Article Using the Analysis Engine Priceonomics.com
• Flesch–Kincaid readability tests
• FryGraph
• Raygor Readability Estimate
• Readability Test
• SMOG - Simple Measure of Goobledygook
• Tests Document Readability
• Text statistics and readability analyzer
• The Reading Level of the State of Union Address is in Decline Priceonomics

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Resources

• The 34 Best Tools for Improving Your Writing Skills 11/2016
• To boost your writing, pick tougher stuff to read 8/2017
• What Is a Whitepaper? [FAQs]

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Scientific Publishing

• Five strategies scholars use in writing medical review articles Sciencedaily.com 2015
• 9 Academic Writing And Study Habits Used By Successful Students
• 21 Brutal, Honest And Relatable Things That Happened In Academic Publishing Publish AND perish? 9/2016
• Fixing published research mistakes not easy; fixing the publishing system may be harder 2/2016
• Free Access to Science Research Doesn't Benefit Everyone Theatlantic.com
• Health News Review - Our Review Criteria
• Got “significosis?” Here are the five diseases of academic publishing 2/2017
• Guide to Academic and Scientific Publications: How to Get Your Writing Published in Academic Journals
• How Academia, Google Scholar And Predatory Publishers Help Feed Academic Fake News 12/2016
• Identifying Predatory or Pseudo-Journals 2/2017
• Keep it long: Most science writing advice flops, analysis finds Sciencedaily.com 4/2015
• Nature journals tighten rules on non-financial conflicts Authors will be asked to declare any interests that might cloud objectivity.
• Open access: All human knowledge is there—so why can’t everybody access it? 6/2016
• Predatory publishers criticised for 'unethical, unprincipled' tactics 8/2015
• Pros and cons of supplementary materials in scientific publishing 8/2016
• Publication Prejudices: An Experimental Study of Confirmatory Bias in the Peer Review System NYU.edu 1977
• Reputational incentives and post-publication review: two (partial) solutions to the misinformation problem 4/2017
• The “phantom reference:” How a made-up article got almost 400 citations 11/2017
• The precarious prevalence of predatory journals 1/2018
• The predatory publishing phenomenon: dead end or just an inconvenience on the road to a new scholarly publishing landscape? 11/2016
• Understanding the complexities of retractions
• Why science news embargoes are bad for the public 11/2016

• FTC Charges Academic Journal Publisher OMICS Group Deceived Researchers 8/2016
• FTC vs. OMICs Lawsuit 8/2016
• U.S. government agency sues publisher, charging it with deceiving researchers 8/2016

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Spelling

Graphic source: http://www.vividmaps.com/2017/05/americas-most-misspelled-words.html

Graphic source: https://www.grammarcheck.net/writing-mistakes-native-speakers/

10 Very Costly Typos Mentalfloss.com 11 Embarrassing Spelling and Grammar Mistakes From Brands Hubspot.com 6/10/2015 16 of the Worst Typos, Grammatical Errors & Spelling Mistakes We've Ever Seen 7/2015 AWS typo gaffe isn't the first, or last in technology History is littered with typo miscues that led to major tech outages, mixups and lots of losses. 3/2017 How to Spell Words You Don't Know: Techniques From Grammar Experts [Infographic] 10/2015 The Typo that Destroyed a NASA Rocket

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Using Templates

• 10 Things: How to use Word templates effectively Techrepublic.com 2/2016
• How to Write a Case Study: The Ultimate Guide & Template 2/2017
• NISVS Customizable Template Fact Sheet Microsoft Word file [DOCX 2.6MB]
• NISVS Customizable Template Fact Sheet Instructions Adobe PDF file [PDF 95KB]

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Vocabulary

Graphic source: https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/worst-buzzwords-new-data

• Everyday Words for Public Health Communication 5/2016
• Hangry, mansplaining, and lactivism added to Oxford Dictionary 1/2018
• Moist. Probe. Crevice: Why Do We Hate Certain Words? 8/2016
• Time Traveler When was a word first used in print? You may be surprised! Enter a date below to see the words first recorded on that year. To learn more about First Known Use dates

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Writing Guides

• 10 Simple Edits That'll Instantly Improve Any Piece of Writing
• 10 Universal Writing Rules from The Onion’s Founding Editor
• CDC’S GUIDE TO Writing for Social Media
• Effective Note-Writing: A Primer for Psychiatry Residents 1/2017
• DBCHES Style Guide
• Guide to Academic and Scholarly Publication - How to Get Your Writing Published in Scholarly Journals
• How to Be a Better Editor: 11 Tips From the Trenches 12/2015
• How to Create a Writing Style Guide Built for the Web [Free Template] 5/2015
• How to Defeat Your Most Dangerous Writing Habit: 7 Ways to Lift 'The Curse of Knowledge' 10/2016
• 12 Tips for Writing With Unforgettable Personality 11/2015
• How to Write Compelling Copy: 7 Tips for Writing Content That Converts
• How to Write Faster: 12 Unusual Hacks [Infographic]
• In Plain Words: Creating Easy-to-Read Handouts OSU.edu
• Plain English Campaign
• Preparing a Policy Issue Brief PSU.edu
• Public Health Research and Writing
• Take 5 Minutes To Read And Improve Your Writing Skills Forever
• Ten Simple Rules to Getting Grants
• Ten Simple Rules to Getting Published
• The Elements of Style Bartleby.com
• The One Technique You Need to Turn Boring Writing into Compelling Words
• Toolkit for Making Written Material Clear and Effective CMS.gov
• Writing a Case Brief

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Writing Press Releases

• How to Write a Press Release [Free Press Release Template + Example]
• How to Write and Format a Press Release for E-mail Distribution
• PR.com Press releases
• Pet Peeves Of The Press
• Writers Resource Center

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Writing for the Web (Content marketing)

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• 4 Psychological Principles That Will Make You Better At Content Marketing 2015
• 5 Bad Writing Habits to Drop Right Now Hubspot.com 5/2015
• 8 Clever Ways to Triple Your Content Output (and Traffic) Hubspot.com
• 9 Simple Ways to Write Stronger Introductions Hubspot.com 5/2015
• 23 Amazing 5-Minute SEO Copywriting Tips To Try Right Now
• A Data-Backed Approach to Writing Great Headlines [Infographic] Hubspot.com 5/2015
• Are You Messing Up Your Email Newsletter? How To Avoid Common Pitfalls Marketingland.com
• Copywriting Lessons From BuzzFeed's Worst Headlines [New Data] Hubspot.com 5/2015
• Estimating the Helpfulness and Economic Impact of Product Reviews: Mining Text and Reviewer Characteristics 2009
• F-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web Content Useit.com
• Here’s What 2.7 Billion Social Shares Say About Online Publishing Marketingland.com 2014
• How Playing Devil’s Advocate Will Improve Your Content
• How to Create a Writing Style Guide Built for the Web [Free Template] Hubspot.com
• How to Write Content That Engages Mobile Readers 2015
• How to Write Better Headlines [Infographic] Hubspot.com
• How to Write a Great Value Proposition [Infographic] Hubspot.com
• How to Write Subheads that Hook (and Re-hook) Your Readers
• How to Get People to Read Your Entire Blog Post Hubspot.com
• How to Write for the IntraNet Gooddocuments.com
• Identifying Content
• Low-Literacy Users Useit.com
• Newspaper Clipping Generator Fodey.com
• Search Ranking Factors Data Points to Importance of Quality Content 2014
• Social Media Writing Resources
• Strategic Use of the Internet
• The Anatomy of an Optimized Blog Post [Infographic] Hubspot.com
• The Psychology Behind Writing a Great Pitch
• Type Faster on a Smartphone, Tablet, or Laptop with Text Expansion Shortcuts Howtogeek.com
• WebCite
• Writing for the Web Useit.com

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PUBLISHED ON THE WEB: June 23, 2000
Updated: 4/14/2018 R816
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