Writing and Editing for Digital Media, 5th Edition

1 Writing for Digital MediaLaying the Foundation

DOI: 10.4324/9781003223849-1

Chapter Objectives

After studying this chapter, you will be able to:

• better understand the principles and habits of good writing;
• correctly apply the rules of grammar, style, syntax, and usage;
• address common writing problems;
• map out and plan writing projects;
• select or determine audience.

The investigation of words is the beginning of education.

—Antisthenes

I sometimes think that writing is like driving sheep down a road. If there is any gate to the left or right, the readers will most certainly go into it.

—C. S. Lewis

My goal as a writer is to make you hear, to make you feel – it is, before all, to make you see.

—Joseph Conrad

Introduction

Whether ...