UWW310Spring2012JournalismCommunication

Interesting! I would have thought that British journalism was more stuffy!

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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.

This site has tons of online resources for writing. It includes lot of other links to writing sites and is a great jumping-off place if you are looking for information. Check it out!

This is an interesting site which gives an overview on technology in education. Thought you might find it interesting too. It contains lot of links and articles regarding technology tools.

I know I posted this before but...

Thanks for posting The Journalist's Toolbox Ian! I think it is a must have for all writers and journalist! Douglas

This looks great Ian! I can't wait to look through it. Fiona

This is a great reference site for looking up just about anything related to words and writing. It includes a Thesaurus and a Translator.

I posted this tool because it is a great way to look up not only correct grammar, but many other things related to writing. My favorite part of this site is it's quick education videos - they are very informative.

This site was one that I found by accident and it looks very interesting. It is a tool for visually mapping out projects and ideas as well as a collaboration tool (it integrates with Google docs). I haven't used it yet, but the video overview looks fantastic - check out the video! Create, share and collaboratively work on mind maps with MindMeister, the leading online mind mapping tool.

This is a great dictionary site for creative, "visual" people. This site allows you to diagram words and their associations to other words. It's a fun way to brainstorm! See formal description below: Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary - Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate. Enter words into the search box to look them up or double-click a node to expand the tree.

Lots of technology ideas for writing! This is another site which is a resource within a resource for writers. It has alot to read and has many suggestions for technology that will help make a writer's life easier.

The Writers Guild of America, East, (WGAE) is a labor union of thousands of professionals who are the primary creators of what is seen or heard on television and film in the U.S., as well as the writers of a growing portion of original digital media content.

This is the personal website of Sean McManus, a business and computer book author based in the UK. I am the author or co-author of these books: Find out more about my computer and business books, and download free chapters. To buy my books, visit the shop. I posted this website because it looked interesting to me because it offered tips on how to write different types of books and offered different resources.

I posted this site for everyone who would like to keep a private Journal - electronically! The site gives you a realistic, "leather bound" journal with lined paper in it which you can use for notes, thoughts, feelings, lists, story ideas or anything else that you would like to write about. You can keep it private or you can share it if you wish. It's saved in the "Cloud" so wherever you are, there it is! It's free for a good basic version and $19 per year for the full blown "Pro" version with all the bells and whistles. Enjoy!

Fiona, this site is awesome! I have already started my own journal and am considering going pro. Thanks for finding and sharing this site.

This is primarily an academic research tool (recommended by Dave MacCourt at the UMass Library.) Since it works with multiple sources outside acedemia (including wikkis) it would be a great way to organize sources for news/magazine articles.

A personal research assistant. Zotero is the only research tool that automatically senses content, allowing you to add it to your personal library with a single click. Whether you're searching for a preprint on arXiv.org, a journal article from JSTOR, a news story from the New York Times, or a book from your university library catalog, Zotero has you covered with support for thousands of sites.

An article in an online fund raising magazine. It is techonology being used, to raise funds, to get tech equipment to specific journalist who need it.

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!

.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.

I shared this site because I thought it was a fun way to help get the seeds of an idea to grow! The story starter provides more than one billion different story starters. The Story Starter was selected as one of the top 101 sites for writers by Writer's Digest Magazine for 2008.