Archives: editing for the web

Exercise: Editing for the web 04

May 21, 2013 | By Jim Stovall | No Comments | Filed in: exercises.

This editing exercise involves reformulating a story written for print to one for the web. Below on the left is the narrative version of the story. On the right is the form that a web site for which you work uses to introduce the story. We can assume that the full narrative will be somewhere • Read More »

Exercise: Editing for the web 03

May 21, 2013 | By Jim Stovall | No Comments | Filed in: exercises.

This editing exercise involves reformulating a story written for print to one for the web. Below on the left is the narrative version of the story. On the right is the form that a web site for which you work uses to introduce the story. We can assume that the full narrative will be somewhere • Read More »

Exercise: Editing for the web 02

May 21, 2013 | By Jim Stovall | No Comments | Filed in: exercises.

This editing exercise involves reformulating a story written for print to one for the web. Below on the left is the narrative version of the story. On the right is the form that a web site for which you work uses to introduce the story. We can assume that the full narrative will be somewhere • Read More »

Exercise: Editing for the web 01

May 21, 2013 | By Jim Stovall | No Comments | Filed in: exercises.

This editing exercise involves reformulating a story written for print to one for the web. Below on the left is the narrative version of the story. On the right is the form that a web site for which you work uses to introduce the story. We can assume that the full narrative will be somewhere • Read More »

Editing for the web: example 1 illustration

May 13, 2013 | By Jim Stovall | No Comments | Filed in: editing.

This page shows a version of editing assignment 1 where the editor has tried to follow the instructions in the assignment. What are some of the obvious differences that you can spot immediately between the original and edited versions? What are some of the less obvious differences? Is there anything else or different that the editor might have done with this story?