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Writing and Editing Digital Texts
Writing and Editing Digital Texts
Welcome to Writing and Editing Digital Texts with Pamela Hewitt
Meet your tutor (2:03)
Module 1: Digital writing skills and techniques
Introduction
Writing and editing for on screen delivery
Exercise: Are pyramids square?
Chunking
Exercise: Chunk this!
Putting digital writing techniques into action… sometimes
Exercise: Less is more
Linking
Exercise: The long and the short of it
Alt text
Exercise: Creating alt text
Answer guide: Alt text
Text and graphics
Short texts for small screens
Exercise: From screen to page, from print to digital
Answer guide: From screen to page, from print to digital
Digital tools for writers
Module 2: From tablets to tweets and beyond
Publishing then and now
Exercise: Print or digital? Online or physical?
Emerging digital forms
Exercise: Which format and why?
Apps
Enhanced ebooks
Exercise: The imaginative experience of reading
Module 3: DIY (or not) publishing and marketing
Introduction: Show me the money!
Advances, royalties, partnership payments and self-publishing
Digital Rights Management
Pros and cons of DRM
Digital options
Optional exercise: What’s the best way for you to publish?
Digital marketing
Optional exercise: Creating a buzz and following up initial interest
Reviewing
Online fundraising
Traps for young (and not-so-young) players
Module 4: Brave new digital world
Digital horizons
Exercise: Plan your next media venture
Exploring print and digital texts - change and continuity
Changing attitudes to digital texts
Final tips
Stay up to date: Further resources
Course evaluation survey
Short texts for small screens
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