{"id":17482,"date":"2022-05-11T08:45:44","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T12:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webservices\/?p=17482"},"modified":"2024-06-08T22:01:08","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T02:01:08","slug":"web-writing-crash-course-5-review-your-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webservices\/2022\/web-writing-crash-course-5-review-your-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Writing Crash Course: 5. Review Your Post"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Web Writing Crash Course: 5. Review Your Post\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Welcome back to the Web Writing Crash Course series! At this point, you may be wondering: \u201cI have applied all the tips, but how can I be sure that my web post is scannable, accessible, and SEO-friendly enough?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We heard you, and we have gathered some (more) tips and tools to help you review your post before they go live!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you haven\u2019t checked out the last 4 instalments of our Web Writing Crash Course series, make sure to do so:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webservices\/2022\/web-writing-crash-course-1-introduction\/\">Part 1: Introduction<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webservices\/2022\/web-writing-crash-course-2-language\/\">Part 2: Language<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webservices\/2022\/web-writing-crash-course-3-structure\/\">Part 3: Structure<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webservices\/2022\/web-writing-crash-course-4-formatting\/\">Part 4: Formatting<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"reviewing-tip-1-get-a-proofreader\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reviewing Tip #1: Get a proofreader<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>As the author, it is easy to have biases in your writing, which cause you to overlook errors. Therefore, it is helpful to ask someone to proofread your post and provide a second perspective. This person can be your co-worker, friend, family, or someone in the demographic that you are writing for. Without having prior knowledge of the post, the proofreader can give you the audience\u2019s perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, if your post is about guides for students, ask a student to proofread it! If they find a part of your post confusing, there will likely be other students who have the same experience, and that means you should perhaps revise that part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"reviewing-tip-2-yoast-seo\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reviewing Tip #2: Yoast SEO<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Yoast SEO is a WordPress plugin that can tell you how readable your web content is. To find your page\u2019s readability score, simply open the page editor screen and scroll down to the \u201cYoast SEO\u201d module.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webservices\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-16-at-3.27.37-PM-400x231.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17483\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Yoast SEO can evaluate how easy it is to read your content, your paragraph and sentence length, your use of passive versus active voice, and so on, and rank your page as \u201cNeeds Improvement\u201d, \u201cOK\u201d or \u201cGood\u201d. A great tool to keep your web content succinct and accessible!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"reviewing-tip-3-hemingway-editor\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reviewing Tip #3: Hemingway Editor<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Hemingway Editor (<a href=\"https:\/\/hemingwayapp.com\/\">https:\/\/hemingwayapp.com\/<\/a>) is a free app that reviews your text, rates its readability, and highlights areas that can be improved. Simply paste your text into the text editor field and toggle on \u201cEdit\u201d mode, and Hemingway Editor will review your writing for you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webservices\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-22-at-2.35.43-PM-240x147.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17484\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"reviewing-tip-4-slick-write\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reviewing Tip #4: Slick Write<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Similar to Hemingway Editor, Slick Write (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.slickwrite.com\/#!home\">https:\/\/www.slickwrite.com\/#!home<\/a>) is also an app that reviews your text and provides suggestions to improve your writing. Just click on \u201cStart writing\u201d, and as the call-to-action suggests, start writing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webservices\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-22-at-2.50.48-PM-240x128.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17485\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And that concludes our Web Writing Crash Course series. We hope that with the tips that we provided, you can now create scannable, accessible and searchable web content. Have fun writing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to the Web Writing Crash Course series! At this point, you may be wondering: \u201cI have applied all the tips, but how can I be sure that my web post is scannable, accessible, and SEO-friendly enough?\u201d We heard you, and we have gathered some (more) tips and tools to help you review your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[276],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-and-tricks"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}