The text on the shelves: a reminder of the content
Tips / / December 19, 2019
How to write a literate and clear text? How you arrange it? On these and other questions you will find answers in this short, but capacious memo on working with text.
Some texts created just for fun or learning, but most of all, of course, this requires a professional activity. Today we share with you the algorithm Sergei KaplichnyIn which he described all available stages of the text - from concept to shipment to the customer.
thoughts
Any of my text begins with an outline in iA Writer. I tried a couple of dozen editors from overloaded Word to black Sublime Text (yes, yes, yes!), But the year before bought iA Writer and do not ever look at other instrumentiki. The beauty of simplicity: there are no settings, you can not change the font and paste the image. No distractions - just you and the text. Only hardcore.
I collect information, to build the letters into words and write, write, write. To proceed to editing after the writing of the text. Now it is better to lie down for an hour or so in a separate file whose name ends, then I start arrogantly cut deals and edit, edit, edit.
the beauty
I use a standard layout and Makowski has long been accustomed to the location of the printing characters on the keyboard. Everything happens on the machine: quotes, Christmas trees, long dash, and I place the other characters when writing text. But I know, so do not everyone, so I advise you to look stateechka about printing gadgets Lebedev in "Mandership" and read about how to use quotes, dash and other signs.
When I was a computer on Windows, I used layout Birman: It is convenient to put quotation marks, Christmas trees and other symbols used in the Russian language. In order not to bother with the typography of the time of writing, it is possible to throw the finished text in the "Printer"Where it is transformed and begins to please the eye correct typographical symbols.
order
To make the text clear, you need to get rid of unnecessary words. Guru, counselor and chief of the Information style Maxim Ilyahov well told about stop words. And get rid of extra catchphrases help straight from the tin "Glavred».
Until yesterday, I enjoyed Test-the-text, Which applies the same ilyahovskie rules, but created by third party developers. More, the text is replete with a variety of I use synonym dictionary. Often helps, believe me.
oshibochka
Everyone makes mistakes, and this is not surprising. Especially if you shoveled a couple of tens of thousands of characters in a single day. When the eyes are already red brick, and the brain is gradually covered with a dark veil, come to the rescue services of spelling and punctuation.
My favorite - "Orfogrammka». Casting a piece of text, waiting until he Analyze, and then corrects the error. The cool thing "Orfogrammka" recognizes and spelling, and punctuation, and stylistic errors, and more, and highlights the lack of the letter "e".
distribution
So how lucky I am to live in the twenty-first century, I do not have to pack the text in an envelope and send to the customer by mail. I'm ready to become throws in Google Docs and send a reference to the right address.
Before sending the last I make changes, to achieve formatting (headings, lists, tables) and calculates the final number of words or characters.