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Noticing Newbies: July 03, 2024 Issue [#12597]




 This week: WritingML and Templates for Reviews
  Edited by: Annette Author IconMail Icon
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1. About this Newsletter
2. A Word from our Sponsor
3. Letter from the Editor
4. Editor's Picks
5. A Word from Writing.Com
6. Ask & Answer
7. Removal instructions

About This Newsletter

"Reviewing is a writing exercise and writing a detailed review is time well spent. Creating detailed feedback for a fellow writer is one of the best tools available for improving your own writing." "Guidelines To Great Reviewing" Open in new Window.


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Letter from the editor

WritingML and Templates


WritingML is the site-specific coding language that we use to enlarge, bold, or colorize our writing.

WritingML tools are all over the site with the most important and obvious tools neatly listed in a bar above most text boxes. The more complex WritingML codes that explain how to make the various links is easily accessed from the left sidebar.

*Tools* Writing.Com Tools --> WritingML: Docs & Help or WritingML: Emoticons

You can also easily make a link to the WritingML list by typing {code:WritingML}, which yields WritingML Help

One important thing to know about WritingML is that it adds character count to a text.

Here is an example:

"Hello" has 5 characters.

Hello
 has 55 characters: {c:magenta}{left}{size:4}{b}Hello{/b}{/size}{/left}{/c}

The above example illustrates how a text can use up a lot of characters, but say very little.

It's important to understand the difference between WritingML and templates when an activity or contest asks for a certain character count. Character count is about the number of keystrokes used in a text. This is not a word count. One word can have one character or it can have many characters.

Templates are the lists or scaffoldings we can create to enhance and organize our reviews or even our creative writing items. You can read more about templates in the items listed below that were created by the site and by other members.

If you have created a colorful review template with many preformatted phrases and you merely fill in the blanks with short answers, your actual review content will be a fraction of the visible text. Anything that you have created upfront (before reading a text that you want to review), no matter if simple or elaborate, is the template.

There are reviewing groups and activities that ask for a certain amount of characters in their reviews. Most will explain that they mean "review characters," meaning your original text written in response to a story, poem, or other item type that you are commenting on.

It's perfectly fine to have reviewing templates or to use the features to embellish text here on the site. These features are here to be used. Just don't count WritingML and templates as new, original content.

Do you know the difference between WritingML and templates?


Editor's Picks

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Writing.Com 101 Open in new Window. (E)
Explanations and instructions of all things Writing.Com.
#101 by The StoryMistress Author IconMail Icon

 Template Talk Open in new Window. (ASR)
A forum for the discussion of Review Tool Templates.
#1093167 by Writing.Com Support Author IconMail Icon

 
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Tilly's Review Tool Open in new Window. (E)
My template for reviewing short stories and chapters
#2162399 by Tileira Author IconMail Icon

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Reviewing ideas Open in new Window. (E)
Tips on reviewing and for making a template
#2028618 by Maryann Author IconMail Icon

 Template Magic! Open in new Window. (E)
Review Template? How to create and use one in Your Review Tool!
#2050230 by eyestar~* Author IconMail Icon

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WritingML Enhancements On Display Open in new Window. (E)
WritingML Help will show you how to use WritingML. This item will show how I have used it!
#1855800 by ruwth Author IconMail Icon

A Warning about WritingML Tags Open in new Window. (E)
My gripe, today, is a warning! WritingML tags can be dangerous!
#310718 by Red Writing Hood <3 Author IconMail Icon

 What is your WritingML IQ? Open in new Window. (E)
Do {i}, {/b}, {e:left} mean anything to you or are these senseless gibberish?
#1083393 by Sam N. Yago Author IconMail Icon

Jack's Bright { Idea } ! Open in new Window. (E)
A novelty verse based around WritingML emoticons
#783313 by deemac Author IconMail Icon

 
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