Resources
General Writing
- Garner’s Modern American Usage
- The Elements of Style
- The Chicago Manual of Style
- Chapter 9, Web Style Guide, 3rd Edition by Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton
- “Fear of Words (and Other Writer’s Blocks)”
- The Writing Problems of Visual Thinkers, by Gerald Grow
- ”Your About Page Is a Robot,” by Erin Kissane
Content Strategy
- Content Strategy for the Web, by Krstina Halvorson
- “Content Strategy: The Philosophy of Data,” by Rachel Lovinger
Keywords
- “Use Old Words When Writing for FIndability,” by Jakob Nielsen
Reading on the Web
- “In Defense of Readers,” by Mandy Brown
- “How Users Read on the Web,” by Jakob Nielsen
Personas
- The Art of Dramatic Writing, by Lajos Egri (a book about dramatic writing, but potentially very useful for the creation of useful personas)