UWW310Spring2012JournalismCommunication

This post is for the person, like me who has used the same program (Word) for years and is looking to expand their horizons! OpenOffice.org 3 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages.

I am using this in place of the power point template that Sherri posted for one of our final projects. It is a greaat place. Easy to use, lots of choices. I have an old computer and don't have power point so this was a great option.

This is a writer's site by writers for writers. I posted this site because it will appeal to writer's of many genres.

This site actually helps with both MLA and APA. It works with your MS word to keep it in the correct format as you create it and does most of the tough citing work for you.

From the website: "Scrivener is a powerful content-generation tool for writers that allows you to concentrate on composing and structuring long and difficult documents. While it gives you complete control of the formatting, its focus is on helping you get to the end of that awkward first draft."

Thanks for the link!

I found this web site to be an informative tool to avoid common mistakes while writing.

.After the Deadline is a language checker for the web with: We use artificial intelligence and natural language processing technology to find your writing errors and offer smart suggestions. Our technology is available under the GNU General Public License. We run an After the Deadline server for your personal use.

Writers Write(R) is a professional resource for editors, journalists and writers which provides information, markets, job listings, writing news, events and discussion. A little ad-heavy but there's some good information here.

A "quick and dirty" tool for language translation, named after the translation fish from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Writing prompts for when you've got writer's block!

In much the way refrigeration changed food production and consumption, digitization potentially changes everything about the manner in which we produce and consume news. All presumptions about its freshness and perishability vanish. For most of the 20th century, the public had to follow unfolding news, catching it as it presented itself or losing it forever.

This one is old too! but still very interesting I think.

It is commonplace that pornography is the avant-garde of all media. When new technologies arise, the pornographers are there first, too. Every time there has been a significant shift in marketplace rules, even if the technology is broadly unchanged, the pornographers are the first to figure it out.

Outdated (2000), but interesting to see how technology is changing journalism and to see where we were just 10 years ago.

Photo courtesy of The Library of Congress. One of the clearest memories of my youth is a conversation I had with my father in the summer of 1970. My dad had left his work in politics and the media to concentrate on the new phenomena of cable TV.

Diana Hacker's book "A Writers Reference" is used in the UMASS Frameworks of Understanding course. The link will allow students to view exercises that are great for writing.

Advice from and for online journalsts.

Provides the ability to search specifically for "scholarly literature". From the About page: "From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research."

If you're writing for a newspaper, the majority of them are fussy about following the AP stylebook. It makes sense from their perspective. They have a deadline and don't want to worry about details. Like this example from my hardcopy version of The AP Stylebook "Initials … T.S. Eliot (No space between T. and S. to prevent them from being placed on two lines of type." (P 363) I bet the online version is easier to search and the auto updates would be nice.

Learn more and find an app " Visually explore the interconnectivity and relationships between WorldCat Identities. Discover dozens of genres representing hundreds of titles, authors, subjects, characters, locations and more ranked by popularity in the world's libraries. Keep library resources close at hand from your browser or personalized Web page.

Neat site!

The purpose of communication is to get your message across to others clearly and unambiguously. Doing this involves effort from both the sender of the message and the receiver. And it's a process that can be fraught with error, with messages often misinterpreted by the recipient.