{"id":1561,"date":"2014-02-17T14:32:56","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T12:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/?p=1561\/"},"modified":"2017-01-18T14:34:30","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T12:34:30","slug":"the-word-of-the-week-is-web-writing-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/the-word-of-the-week-is-web-writing-mistakes\/","title":{"rendered":"The word of the week is <i>web writing mistakes<\/i>."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Tampere held a seminar on web writing for its intranet editors at the Museum Centre Vapriikki last Wednesday. As I worked on my presentation, I looked at materials I created six years ago as part of training for the start of Loora, the city&#8217;s intranet. On the basis of participant comments back then, I published a list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.net\/yk\/iwfaq\/en.index.php\">good practices<\/a>\u2014and also collected the most common errors found in online writing.<\/p>\n<p>1. The main topic doesn&#8217;t appear at the beginning.<br \/>\n2. Information is not up-to-date.<br \/>\n3. Links don&#8217;t work.<br \/>\n4. The title fails to summarize the content.<br \/>\n5. The lead is missing.<br \/>\n6. There is no subtitles.<br \/>\n7. Text is difficult and hard to read.<br \/>\n8. Sentences and paragraphs are too long.<br \/>\n9. Too many lists with random or trivial elements.<br \/>\n10. Buzzwords, needless repetition, and stock phrasing.<br \/>\n11. Unexplained acronyms, abbreviations, and technical terms.<br \/>\n12. Dry content and inappropriate tone.<br \/>\n13. The writer underestimates the reader and overestimates himself.<br \/>\n14. Spelling and grammar errors.<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly\u2014or not\u2014that six-year-old list makes sense today. I might add to the top of the list a comment from Loora&#8217;s editor-in-chief Aila Rajam\u00e4ki: &#8220;The text doesn&#8217;t take the reader into account.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Tampere held a seminar on web writing for its intranet editors at the Museum Centre Vapriikki last Wednesday. As I worked on my presentation, I looked at materials I created six years ago as part of training for the start of Loora, the city&#8217;s intranet. On the basis of participant comments back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-english-en","7":"category-wordoftheweek-en","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1562,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561\/revisions\/1562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}