Writing - Internet Resources

Graphic source (Version 4.0) https://www.adfontesmedia.com/

Example of DeepFake

Graphic source: http://earthsky.org/human-world/fake-news-mar-2018-article-science-calling-for-studies

Graphic source: https://www.journalism.org/2019/06/05/many-americans-say-made-up-news-is-a-critical-problem-that-needs-to-be-fixed/

Graphic source: https://www.journalism.org/2019/06/05/many-americans-say-made-up-news-is-a-critical-problem-that-needs-to-be-fixed/

Graphic source: https://www.journalism.org/2019/06/05/many-americans-say-made-up-news-is-a-critical-problem-that-needs-to-be-fixed/

Graphic source: https://www.journalism.org/2019/06/05/many-americans-say-made-up-news-is-a-critical-problem-that-needs-to-be-fixed/

Graphic source: https://www.journalism.org/2019/06/05/many-americans-say-made-up-news-is-a-critical-problem-that-needs-to-be-fixed/

Graphic source: http://www.journalism.org/2016/12/15/many-americans-believe-fake-news-is-sowing-confusion/

Graphic source: https://www.statista.com/chart/14265/where-exposure-to-fake-news-is-highest/

Graphic source: https://www.statista.com/chart/11831/manipulation-tactics-on-social-media/

Graphic source: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2731897

Fake News Tools

• Botometer
• Fakespot Online tool for detecting fake reviews
• Fakey
• Hoax-slayer.com
• Hoaxy Online tool for detecting fake news on Twitter
• Media Bias Fact Check
• ReviewMeta.com ReviewMeta.com analyzes millions of reviews and helps you decide which ones to trust
• Snopes.com

Graphic source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/03/190329130206.htm

Fake News Resources
"Health-related misconceptions, misinformation, and disinformation spread over social media, posing a threat to public health. Despite significant potential to enable dissemination of factual information,social media are frequently abused to spread harmful health content, including unverified and erroneous information about vaccines."
Source: http://media1.s-nbcnews.com/i/today/z_creative/WeaponizedHealthCommunicationDavid%20BFULLSTUDY.PDF

• 4 reasons fake news tricks us and what we can do 6/2018
• Top 10 sites to debunk Internet hoaxes
• All Generalizations are False
• Advances in artificial intelligence could soon make creating convincing fake audio and video known as deepfakes relatively easy. 1/2019
• April Fools hoax stories could offer clues to help identify 'fake news' 3/2019
• Biggest Fake News Stories of 2017
• Better online tools give you more ways to check fake news 5/2018
• Detecting fake news, at its source 10/2018 Sciencedaily.com
• Detecting fake news at its source 10/2018 MIT.edu
• Distinguishing Between Factual and Opinion Statements in the News 6/2018
• Evaluating Websites: Identifying Fake News Sources Guidance for selecting the best sites for your research needs
• Fake News, Bad Science, and Predatory Journals: Information Evaluation for the Academic: Fake News SCSU Library
• Fake News: Lies spread faster on social media than truth does People are quicker to repeat something that's wrong than something that's true 3/2018
• Fake News Sources Current to May 16, 2017
• Fake Medical Journals Are Spreading, And They Are Filled With Bad Science
• Fake news invades science and science journalism as well as politics 12/2016
• Fake news more likely to thrive online due to lowered fact-checking 9/2017
• Fake news problem: Facebook is a media company run by engineers 11/2017 11/2017
• How fake news is changing the internet The tools we all use for knowledge, communication and business are being re-engineered to stop disinformation. Is our loss of control worth it? 1/2019
• How to quickly spot dodgy science
• How to spot fake news in your social media feed - Are you sharing fake news without knowing it? 3/2018
• How to spot fake reviews on Amazon Real or complete nonsense? Here's how to tell if an Amazon review is fake 6/2018
• How to spot it lies, 'fake news' and propaganda 12/2016
• Internet trolls rely on social defaults, the online version of herd mentality 11/2017
• Is fact-checking fake news a waste of time? 7/2017
• It's not just politics: 2016 was an epidemic year for fake news in science, too 1/2017
• Joke Science Papers Get Less Funny Every Year 12/2016
• Junk Food and Junk News: The Case for Information Fitness 6/2018
• Literallyunbelievable.org
• Many Americans Believe Fake News Is Sowing Confusion 12/2016
• Many Americans Say Made-Up News Is a Critical Problem That Needs To Be Fixed 6/2019
• Media Bias Chart
• How Ad Fontes Ranks News Sources - ad fontes media 9/2018
• Medical research coverage often contains too few independent, conflict-free comments 12/2016
• PolitiFact's guide to fake news websites and what they peddle 4/2017
• Protecting the Value of Medical Science in the Age of Social Media and “Fake News” 11/2018
• Source credibility is key to derailing fake news 5/2019
• Standard Eurobarometer 83
• State of the News Media - Data and trends about key sectors in the U.S. news media industry
• Tackling online disinformation: Commission proposes an EU-wide Code of Practice 4/2018
• The digital transformation of news media and the rise of online disinformation 4/2018
• The Ethics of Ironic Science in Its Search for Spoof
• The Ethics of Sarcastic Science 12/2014
• The Future of Truth and Misinformation Online 10/2017
• Therapeutic Touch Pseudoscience: The Tooth Fairy Strikes Again
• Therapy Babble - Hyperbolic, messy, pseudoscientific theories about therapy are all too common 6/2015
• The science of fake news gets a boost 3/2018
• The science of fake news 3/2018
• The spread of true and false news online 3/2018
• This viral Schwarzenegger deepfake isn't just entertaining. It's a warning. The emergence of fake videos have become a sort of test run and public service announcement, heightening public awareness of deepfake technology. 6/2019
• Time for change in science journalism? 12/2016
• Tineye Reverse Image Source
• Vanity and predatory academic publishers are corrupting the pursuit of knowledge
• Weaponized Health Communication: Twitter Bots and Russian Trolls Amplify the Vaccine Debate AJPH 8/2018
• Websites that Post Fake and Satirical Stories
• What is 'fake news,' and how can you spot it? Try our quiz
• When it comes to conspiracy theories, intuition and stress conspire against you The enduring appeal of crap 3/2019
• Who spreads fake news? Overwhelmingly, old white men Analysis of 2016 Presidential election Facebook posts found most people didn’t fall for made-up stories, but elderly conservative males were a significant exception. 1/2019
• Why Misinformation Is About Who You Trust, Not What You Think 2/2019
• Why technology alone won't save us from fake news
• Why we're susceptible to fake news, how to defend against it 8/2018

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General Resources

• Employer Survey & Economic Trend Research
• 8 Tricks to Writing Quickly 10/2016
• These 30 Words are Always Mispronounced Lifehack.org
• The 31 Best Tools for Improving Your Writing Skills 11/2015
• A Science-Backed Method for Better Writing: How to Find Your Ideal Time of Day 12/2015
• Document Checklist for Plain Language Plainlanguage.gov
• Double-Tongued Dictionary
• Ethical Guidelines to Publication of Chemical Research
• From an Engineer to an Author, I Find These Writing Tips Really Helpful
• Health Literacy Resources
• How to Cite a Letter to the Editor From a Journal in APA
• How to Develop a Daily Writing Habit Lifehack.org
• How to Train Your Brain to Write More Concisely: 6 Creative Exercises to Try 4/2016
• How to Write a Cover Letter That Gets You the Job [Template + Examples]
• How to Write Better Headlines [Infographic] Hubspot.com
• How to Write a Thesis Statement - Indiana University
• How to Write With Clarity: 9 Tips for Simplifying Your Message 11/2015
• Just for journalists: Tips and case studies for writing about health care
• Lake Superior State University's Complete List of Banished Words
• Manuscript Reviewing Guidelines
• Minutes in Criminal Procedures: Writing Style Influences Judges Sciencedaily.com 10/2014
• One Word How much can you write in one minute for a word? Try it
• OWL Resources (Purdue University) Don't Miss!
• Paragraph Length
• Pdftoword.com Convert PDF files to Word
• Preparing to Research SDSU.edu
• Public Health Practice Issues
• State of Writing Many resources
• Symbols from your keyboard
• Ten ways To Write Every Day
• Testyourvocab.com
• The Dullest, Most Vital Skill You Need to Become a Successful Manager
• The Ghostwriting Business 4/2016
• The Kurt Vonnegut Guide to Great Copywriting: 8 Rules That Apply to Anyone 12/2015
• The Sage English Dictionary and Thesaurus Download a free copy
• The Ultimate Collection of Free Content Marketing Templates 11/2016
• Time Traveler Find out what year words were created
• Web Sites for Writers Plainlanguagenetwork.org
• What's Up With That: Why It's So Hard to Catch Your Own Typos Wired.com
• Word Wise Correct spelling of frequently misspelled word
• Word Wise Blog Brush up on grammar and spelling
• Writer's Resource Center
• Writing and Multiple Intelligences Longleaf.net

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Authorship

Graphic source: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsb1616595

• Coauthorship and Publication Credit Vanderbilt.edu
• Post Publication Peer Review: Blogs vs Letters to the Editor
• Random Reflections on Getting Published
• THE GREAT IN-DEPTH ARTICLES DISAPPEARING TRICK
• The Revise and Resubmit Series, Part 1: Coping with Criticism
• The Revise and Resubmit Series, Part 2: Deciphering Reviewer Comments

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Blogging

Graphic source: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/infographic-wordpress-website-maintenance-checklist/

• 5 Engagement-Driven Elements You Should Add to Every Blog Post 2015
• Five reasons blog posts are of higher scientific quality than journal articles 4/2017
• 5 Simple Strategies To Improve Your Blog's Search Rankings
• 5 Steps to Turning Your Blogging Hobby Into a Job
• 7 Types of Blog Posts That Earn The Most Inbound Links
• 7 Ways to Speed Up Your Content Creation Hubspot.com
• 8 Reasons Why Your Blog Posts Are Hard to Read (And How to Fix 'Em) Hubspot.com 8/2015
• 9 Great Tools to Help You Write & Edit Blog Posts Better Hubspot.com 2015
• 9 Tips for Making Your Writing More Interesting 9/2015
• 12 Blogging Mistakes Most Beginner Bloggers Make 7/2018
• 12 blogging mistakes made by researchers and evaluators freshspectrum.com
• 16 Blogging styles for researchers and evaluators freshspectrumcom
• 13 Types of Blog Headlines That Will Get You More Traffic Hubspot.com
• 17 Stats You Should Know About Visual Content Marketing in 2015
• 22 bloggers with advice for researchers and evaluators, illustrated
• 37 Proven Methods To Increase Blog Traffic And Boost Engagement
• 50 Catchy Headline Formulas That You Can Use on Your Blog (With Examples)
• 2014 B2B Content Marketing Research: Strategy is Key to Effectiveness
• A Simple Formula for Writing Kick-Ass Blog Titles 3/2015
• Content marketing tips: How to promote your blog posts on social
• Everything a Blog Post Needs for Ideal SEO
• Google Blog Search
• How Often Should Companies Blog? [New Benchmark Data] Hubspot.com 4/2015
• How to Analyze Your Blog Posts: A Beginner's Guide Hubspot.com
• How to Decide What to Blog About: 6 Data-Driven Tactics for Choosing Blog Topics 8/2017
• How to Search Engine Optimize Your Blog Content 7/2016
• How To Start a Blog; A Complete Beginner's Guide
• How To Start A Blog: A Step-By-Step Guide startablog213.com
• How to Write a Blog Post: A Simple Formula + 5 Free Blog Post Templates 5/2016
• How to Write Catchy Headlines and Blog Titles Your Readers Can't Resist
• Take Advantage Of Repurposing Content: Read These 8 Tips
• The Anatomy of a Perfect Blog Post 6/2017
• The Power of the Post: Optimizing Blog Posts 2015
• The therapeutic value of adolescents blogging about social emotional difficulties 8/2013
• The Ultimate List of Websites Every Blogger Should Bookmark 12/2016
WordPress website maintenance checklist 2/2018
• We stopped publishing new blog posts for one month. Here's what happened. [Buffer]
• What Makes Top Company Blogs So Successful? [New Data] 9/2015
• What's the Best Way to Write a Blog Post? Marketers Weigh In 8/2017
• Why Blog? The Benefits of Blogging for Business and Marketing 9/2015
• Why Blogs on Subdomains are Basically Worthless for SEO 2015

Graphic source: https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/blogging-tactics-produce-results-data

Copywriting

• Copywriting 101: 6 Traits of Excellent Copy Readers Will Remember

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Editing

• Essential Editing and Proofreading Tools for Polish Academic Writing
• The Ultimate Online Editing and Proofreading Checklist 4/2015

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E-Mail

Graphic source: http://www.gfi.com/blog/survey-81-of-u-s-employees-check-their-work-mail-outside-work-hours/

• 4 Tips for Getting Your Work Emails Read and Answered 8/2017
• Caution! 10 Types of Emails You Should Never Open
• 10 tips for spotting a phishing email
• 11 Tools for Organizing Your Inbox 11/2015
• After-Hours Use Of Work Email May Finally See Some Labor Regulations 5/2015
• Americans spend an alarming amount of time checking social media on their phones 6/2015
• Email Statistics Report, 2014-2018 Radicati.com
• Here's What Scientists Learned In The Largest Systematic Study Of Email Habits Popsci.com
• 12 Tips for Amazingly Effective Email Subject Lines
• Click Here Or Else: The Evolution of Chain Emails Marketingland.com 4/2015
• Email design concepts for non-designers A lesson from #SherpaEmail
• Email Language that Works: 5 Subject Line Tricks 4/2016
• Evolution of Conversations in the Age of Email Overload 2015
• Five free apps for encrypting email
• Electronic Greeting Cards
• Errors Like Email Fails Cause 30 Percent of Data Breaches, Verizon Says 2015
• Friends are no better than strangers in accurately identifying emotion in emails 8/30/2016
• GFI Email Security Testing Zone
• How to Optimize Your Emails for Mobile: A Beginner's Guide Hubspot.com 2014
• How to Spend Less Time on Email: 12 Tips for Keeping Your Inbox Under Control 1/2016
• How to Write a Great Email Signature: 9 Tips With Real Examples 6/2016
• How to Write a Marketing Email: 10 Tips for Writing Compelling Email Copy 4/2016
• How to Write Networking Emails Executives Can't Ignore Cheatsheet.com 2015
• How Welcome Emails Help Predict Future Subscriber Engagement & Value Marketingland.com 2015
• Internet @ddress Finder
• Let's rethink email
• Maildrop
• Researchers nab millions of stolen credentials for Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, Banking 5/2016
• The Email Scam with Centuries of History Priceonomics.com
• Test Your Emoji IQ
• The ultimate 2016 email marketing benchmark guide
• Tips on writing for email vs. writing for social media 8/2018
• To email or not to email? For those in love, it's better than leaving a voice message Sciencedaily.com 2015
• What Does Your Email Writing Style Say About You? [New Data] Hubspot.com 2015

Graphic source: http://www.techrepublic.com/article/personal-vs-corporate-email-the-security-threats-differ-says-google/

Graphic source: http://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/email-writing-mistakes-data

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ePrivacy

• GDPR vs. ePrivacy: The 3 differences you need to know

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E-Readers

• Adobe Digital Editions
• Calibre

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Expressive Writing/Journaling/Keeping A Diary

• 8 Reasons Why Writing Is A Great Life-Hack & Can Make You Healthier (Backed By Science) 7/2017
• Are You A Frequent Worrier? New Study Shows How You Can Drastically Reduce Worry
• The Health Benefits of Journaling
• Journaling for Mental Health
• Keeping a diary makes you happier 2/2009
• New study says that writing can help you stop worrying 9/2017
• Scientific Studies Show How Writing In A Journal Can Actually Benefit Your Emotional & Physical Well-Being 1/2017
• The puzzling way that writing heals the body 6/2017
• Writing Journal for a Better and More Productive Self (The How-To Guide) 6/2018

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Grammar & Punctuation

"...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)

Graphic source: http://data3.whicdn.com/images/116715/original.jpg

• 7 Common Grammar Myths You'll Never Fall For Again Hubspot.com
• 12 Grammatical Errors Even Smart People Make 7/2018
• 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
• 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

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Grant Resources & Opportunities (& Grant Writing)

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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
• How Writing in a Journal Helps Manage Depression
• 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

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Journalism

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

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Letter Writing

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

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Linguistics

• By the Book, Which English Is Better? 7/2018
• Commonly Misused Phrases That Will Make You Sound Unprofessional 1/2018
• Language study reveals best words to use when selling products 4/2016
• The Lost Lingo of New York City's Soda Jerks 6/2018
• 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
• Why you shouldn't say girls are as good as boys at math 7/2017

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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
• Federal plain language guidelines
• Federal plain language guidelines 3/2011
• 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
• Checking the source: how to read a scientific paper 6/2017
• 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
• What is peer review? 5/2018
• 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
• 25 Most Commonly Misspelled Words in America
• 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

• 20 Slang Terms From the 1950s No One Uses Anymore
• 20 Slang Terms From the 1960s No One Uses Anymore
• 20 Slang Terms From the 1970s No One Uses Anymore
• 20 Slang Terms From the 1980s No One Uses Anymore
• 20 Slang Terms From the 1990s No One Uses Anymore
• 40 Everyday Slang Words That Were Invented Online
• 40 Slang Terms No One Over 40 Should Ever Use
• Everyday Words for Public Health Communication 5/2016
• Give Merriam Webster the Year You Were Born and They'll Give You the Hot New Words From Then .
• Hangry, mansplaining, and lactivism added to Oxford Dictionary 1/2018
• Moist. Probe. Crevice: Why Do We Hate Certain Words? 8/2016
• See the Top Slang Term from Every U.S. State
• 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)

Graphic source: http://www.marketingcharts.com/online/content-marketing-research-reports-videospodcasts-said-effective-but-difficult-68494/attachment/ascend2-effective-difficult-content-types-june2016/

• 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: 6/15/2019 R1,150
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