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A neat little video that connects persuasive writing to the many advertisements all around the world today and the key tips to be successful in persuading an audience. The audience of this video is evidently college students just like us.

As much as I HATE wikihow this little page actually contained some great pointers on writing instructions.

not entirely sure what project #1 is yet, but I imagine this would be useful for instructing someone else to surf Google

I like the simplicity of this site, clear and concise.

A video on how to write instructions which will be helpful in project 1. If you are a visual learner this video will help you better understand the purpose of instruction writing and how to successfully write instructions.

This page will help me with Project #1 because it informs me on how to write instructions specifically on the web. It contains a lot of great information, including why knowing your audience is important, how to remain brief but be exact, how to select appropriate wording, and how to perfect the visual appeal of the instructions.

A list of guidelines to assist in writing, formatting and sending emails includes writing IM, Chat, Blogs, Forums, and Message Boards.

details each part of a business report

Gives advices on how to write a good formal report

Talks about the importance of one type of digital writing, weblog, and how it is being used to talk about topics among users

Formal Reports: This site provides quick and easy guidelines on how to write a formal report for professional purposes.

Tells you in DEPTH how to write a formal report. It also explains exactly what a formal report is and what it can be used for.

FORMAL REPORTS. This website gives good advice as to how to construct a proper formal report. That might be redundant. 

Course webpage

Digital Writing homepage

English 307 Homepage

"Adding emphasis to your writing will help readers see your main ideas both within sentences as well as with in the entire essay. Em phasis and variety can be achieved through design as well as thr ough the positioning of words within the sentence."

I like this resource because it looks at style and emphasis from a more academic viewpoint. (Week 10, 11/30)

Some questions to think about when reading a text and trying to figure out an author's purpose in writing the text.

An article about finding your audience. Full of personal accounts to help apply what is learned to our writing.

Push 3 - I feel like this will be beneficial to completing my first project because it clearly states the purpose of technical writing and goes over various processes of planning prior to the initial drafting process

Instructions to close the gap between pupils' reading and writing.

Goes into depth on technical writing

I like this page because it reminds you to keep things simple, but also precise. push #1

Has different resources for those interested in expanding their digital writing skills 

Purdue online writing lab give help on revising for conciseness and clarity. This is very important when I do my instructions because for my instructions to effective people must understand what I am say and quickly.