First, apply instructor feedback to your HTML page. For most of you, this will involve repairing nesting, closing up element tags properly, or making sure the document head section is correct. Check the video walkthrough for more information.
Second, revise your content according to lessons from chapters 10-12 of Letting go of the Words. In particular, work on these five areas:
Start by considering who your audience ought to be for this content and revise with them in mind. Imagine you’re a content blogger or article-writer for an outdoor-themed blog (or another appropriate web venue if your excerpt is from a different text).
Is this article going to be introductory content for a beginner?
Material for an intermediate or advanced visitor?
Some other audience?
What different needs do different audiences have?
Add lists to your article where appropriate. You should either repair existing lists if you had them in the first draft or locate content that should be a list. Your revision should include at least 1 list. Work on some of the following principles from chapter 11:
Use bulleted lists for options (In HTML markup these are “unordered lists”)
Use numbered lists for steps or hierarchies (In HTML markup these are “ordered lists”)
Remember that lists should have an introduction
Watch parallelism; try to start list items the same way
Keep lists short; group or categorize long lists
Give your article’s sentences a solid polishing. (But be careful—don’t cut important content!) Work on some of the following principles from chapter 10:
Use you, I, and we, & remain gender-neutral
Short, simple sentences
Cut unnecessary words and use plain language
Keep paragraphs short
Add at least two links to relevant external content. Remember these principles from chapter 12:
Use meaningful link text, not just “click here” or “more”; use verbs when appropriate.
Determine carefully whether your link should be embedded in content or at the end of content chunks.
Evaluate and revise your subheadings: See Redish p. 186 for a refresher on her principles.
Validate your markup before you're done. Use the W3C Markup Validator at https://validator.w3.org/ This is like spellcheck for html markup--it checks for all sorts of errors that you might not see yourself. You can upload your file or copy/paste your markup into the validator to get it checked out.
When you're done, you'll submit your new HTML file to the HTML Exercise 2 assignment on Bb
