Contents for E-What? A Guide to the Quirks of New Media Style and Usage

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Foreword

Acknowledgments

1. Keeping Up with Style

• Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Initialisms
• Capitalization
• Wild-Eyed at Uncultivated Words?
• Prefixes
• Suffixes
• Compounding
• Morphing Parts of Speech
• Symbols
• Numbers
• Web Addresses
• Writing for the Web
• Writing about the Web
• Writing E-Mail
• Working with Word

2. Quick Reference List of Troublesome Terms

• Rules, Advice, Your Best Guess
• Why Are These Particular Terms Here?
• Glossary

3. Planning Your Online Style Guide

• What's Our Style?
• Creating a Guide
• Making Intranet Content Easy to Use
• Making It Work

Annotated Bibliography

• Electronic Sources
• Glossaries, Thesauruses, and Acronym Lists Online
• E-Mail Discussion Lists
• Printed Books

Sidebars

• Consider Creating a Style FAQ
• Language Under the Influence of New Media
• Confusing Domain Name Categories
• Getting a Feel for Address Formats
• Metric Isn't Dead Just Because We Don't Use It
• New Media, as She Is Written About
• Taking Disabilities into Account
• Two Kinds of Dialogue with Online Style Guide Users
• Case Study: Using a Macro to Check for Biased Language
• Case Study: Using a Macro to Convert Tables
• Intelligent Links
• Reality: They're Going to Print Out Pages

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