I spent a good chunk of yesterday reading "papers" online from FSOSS. While I enjoyed many of the observations and the comments about what people took away from the talks, I was, on the whole, horrified at the way most people approached writing on the web.
Do we teach writing online as a distinct and unique form of writing? I'm not sure, but I'm going to find out. Until then allow me to drop some wisdom--I can call it that because it's not mine:
- Writing on the Web
- How Users Read on the Web (they don't)
- and basically everything here
Give me links. Give me headings. Break your paragraphs up into short, succinct power pellets of rhetorical power. And don't put a .zip file on a wiki and think you've written for the web.