- Feb 2024
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Say the manager is looking at a handful of resumés and portfolios, and each of them present candidates who are accomplished writers who could do the job. But your resumé presents you as a silo-buster, able to do more than the job at hand but many of the adjacent tasks that might come up. That represents real value to the employer since he or she will get the skills of several employees for the price of one.
This is almost exactly identical to what I mentioned earlier. When you are well rounded and have skills in many areas, you are more beneficial to a company and therefore more people will want to hire you.
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Diversifying your talents won't just help you with the practical concerns of producing quality web writing—it can also help you secure employment.
This is true. When an employer sees that a possible candidate for a new job opening has experience in multiple areas pertaining to the field that they are in, it makes them more likely to be hired.
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Being able to provide your own visual content to accompany your web writing can be a great asset, especially to media outlets whose budgets for professionally produced photography, infographics, etc. are constantly shrinking. It can also help you retain more control of your output when publishing on others' platforms.
Graphic Design is an extremely useful skill, especially if you are a writer for a digital platform. For example, if you want to start up a website, if you have experience in graphic design, you have everything you need to start up your own website.
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Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter being the biggest examples today—and they probably make up a sizable portion of your weekly interaction with the web.
This is true. A large majority of the news that I get comes from social media platforms like Instagram, TIkTok and Facebook. Alot of times, I even find that I use TikTok if I want to search something up, and Google is becoming less frequently used.
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One of the big shifts that happened as these outlets moved online is that the traditional production cycle was upended. Newspapers used to publish once or twice a day, magazines once a week or once a month.
Nowadays, it's extremely rare to see paper newspapers. Since everybody carries a smartphone, you can obtain LIVE news updates in a matter of seconds, so paper newspapers are kind of unnecessary.
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they charged readers to read (either buying the item on a newsstand or purchasing a subscription) and they ran ads in their pages. When media outlets first went online, they mostly just posted print articles online and let anyone read them for free.
Nowadays, I think people are a lot more reluctant to pay to read articles, especially since now there are so many other ways to obtain information, it's easier to just go to a different website for information.
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Writing for the web is now as easy as typing—easier, since we don’t need to spell to use emoji and don’t need to even move our fingers to dictate a text to our phones.°
I hadn't even thought about this. What defines "writing?" Nowadays, especially with AI like SIRI, and Alexa, we can even write by simply speaking to the AI, which will type out our message for us.
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Combined with the growing use of artificial intelligence and machine learning to automate the collection, processing, and use of the tons and tons of data that is being collected, some thinkers refer to the present (or still approaching) era as Web 3.0.
This is related to everything that we see nowadays. Although AI is an amazing advancement that we have made in technology, AI has a lot of pros and cons that need to be considered, especially in regards to copyright, private information, etc.
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Nowadays, many users interact with, write for, comment on, and react to web-based writing without ever using a browser like Firefox or Chrome—doing it instead through apps like Facebook and Twitter than live directly on their phones' home screens. Some of them probably don’t even think about this as writing for the web, since the once-familiar process of using a modem to establish a phone line-based web connection and then launching a web browser on a desktop computer monitor are long gone.
I hadn't thought about that. We write for the web even when we are posting a picture and writing a small caption on social media. I bet if we had access to a storage of everything we've written for the internet, the list would be huge.
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In other words, early HTML was used to determine both the structure and the formatting of webpages.
When I was in seventh and eighth grade, I took a coding class where we learned quite a bit about HTML, coding, and how it is used in the structure and formatting of web pages.
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The internet gives nearly everyone the power that used to be guarded by the gatekeepers of the publishing industry. Almost anyone now can have a voice that might reach to the very tips of humanity with almost no effort.
This is a double edged sword. Of course, it's great to have free speech and be able to speak your mind freely on whatever given topic you want, but this can also be a dangerous thing if it is placed into the hands of the wrong individual.
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Second, the audience as always so much closer when you write for an online environment.
This is true. Compared to a static medium like a paperback copy of a book, which takes time to reach the audience, an online source is delivered right to the hand of the audience as soon as the author clicks send and publishes their work online.
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Hypertext, on the other hand, is dynamic
Kind of like I mentioned in my other annotation, I think it's cool how dynamic mediums are constantly changing and adapting as our forms of communication change as we grow as a society.
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Because writing on the web collapses much of the time and distance between the writer and reader compared to traditional publishing, it can help to develop your skills as an editor. Learning to proofread your own work for simple errors, to read aloud and find unclear or unwieldy passages, and to be able to find answers to questions about usage will all serve you well.
This is extremely important! I of all people should know this. As Editor in Chief of the Pioneer magazine at Prairie State College, I have learned that it is vital to your success as a writer to know how to recognize and fix your mistakes. It takes time and practice, and maybe even a revision by a peer, but once you acquire the skill, it will GREATLY improve your writing.
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One big category of website that produces writing are the professional media outlets that employ journalists, editors, researchers, and writers to produce daily or weekly content. On these sites, the writing itself is the product.
Although thee are so many different styles of writing, especially on the internet, I think we can all agree in one way or another that knowing how to write professionally, whether it may be for a professional media outlet or even for a company website, is very important. Consider journalism. If a journalist working for the New York Times were to publish a story that was written in the style of something that came from Reddit, they would be fired immediately. Therefore, knowing how to differentiate when to use different writing styles is extremely important as a writer.
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But most important of all, it allowed viewers of webpages to contribute to those pages, directly adding to or changing the content. This ushered in the rise of social media and what we now call Web 2.0.
Wow. So basically, without the development of what we know now as "Web 2.0," we would have never had social media. Web 2.0 is what really pioneered and "birthed" major social media outlets such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, etc.
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Print text—ink on paper—is a static medium
Before reading this article, I had never heard of the terms "static" and "dynamic medium". I find it interesting how a static medium like ink on paper has been used for centuries and is one of the first forms of written communication in history. A dynamic medium on the the other hand, is like the internet; forever changing and evolving to adapt to the new forms of communication that are developed as we grow as a society.
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