{"id":378,"date":"2004-05-21T12:11:49","date_gmt":"2004-05-21T16:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=378"},"modified":"2004-05-21T12:11:49","modified_gmt":"2004-05-21T16:11:49","slug":"web-writing-and-patterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=378","title":{"rendered":"Web Writing and Patterns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Resources at\u2020 Hot Text -- Web Writing that Works\" href=\"http:\/\/www.webwritingthatworks.com\/index.htm\">Resources at\u2020 Hot Text &#8212; Web Writing that Works<\/a> is a project by &#8220;The Communication Cirle&#8221; (which looks like a writing and consulting company) that has some good stuff on writing for the web. I am intrigued by how they present genres as the writing equivalent to patterns. (See their section on <a title=\"Patterns -- Web Writing that Works\" href=\"http:\/\/www.webwritingthatworks.com\/BPatterns.htm\">Patterns<\/a>.) Could it be that genre theory could be applied to the discussion in computer science on patterns?<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nHere is what they say about blogs.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The key is to add enough perspective so the reader hears your voice, but not so much that you turn the text into a full article. Blogs are more casual, informal, and tentative. &#8230; The conversation becomes visible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Alas readers &#8211; my purpose in these entries is to write enough to keep notes that make sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resources at\u2020 Hot Text &#8212; Web Writing that Works is a project by &#8220;The Communication Cirle&#8221; (which looks like a writing and consulting company) that has some good stuff on writing for the web. I am intrigued by how they present genres as the writing equivalent to patterns. (See their section on Patterns.) Could it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=378\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Web Writing and Patterns<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}