Writing Samples
I have written for newsletters, websites, brochures, annual reports, tradeshow displays, advertisements, direct mail pieces, and informative guides. I am an experienced editor and can check copy for style, punctuation, grammar, and spelling. For many websites, I reorganize and revamp brochure copy into a more web-friendly format that promotes the site by emphasizing keywords that search engines will find.
SAMPLE 1: Feature Article
Plato's Web
Imagine a spider crawling a page of text. Would it know a page of Plato from a Pizza box? On the web, the answer is a surprising YES.
Back in the Dark Ages, people put up web pages, spiders found them, and humans at Yahoo indexed them by writing on 3X5 cards. Google vastly improved things by rating the quality of a page's content by snooping on who was watching it: the more links to a page, the theory went, the better the content had to be. And it worked.
But today, a grassroots movement to tag web content more meaningfully hints at a quantum leap to come: a web where the atomic unit is not the Web Page but small quarks of information in a soup of interconnected data.[FULL ARTICLE]
SAMPLE 2: Newsletter article
Tiffs, Gifs, Jpegs...and Oops!
It used to be so simple. You took your vacation snapshots to the grocery store, sent the prints to your friends, and posted the best ones on your fridge. Now you’re supposed to e-mail your holiday snaps to friends, and post the best ones on your family’s personal website. If your scans are more “oops” than “.eps,” this easy guide to electronic imaging should help. [FULL ARTICLE]
SAMPLE 3: Web Marketing Copy
Why Choose PS Data Supply?
FREE Same Day/Next Day Pickup and Delivery. Big project due and you’re out of ink? Don’t throw yourself into traffic to search local office supply stores, call PS Data Supply. Both same-day rush delivery and next-day delivery are absolutely FREE.
You Need It? We’ve Got It. Forget scrolling through lists of products on some online store. Let us find it for you in a few moments in our inventory of over 4,000 items from 70 national brands — all IN STOCK in our Rockville warehouse. [FULL ARTICLE]
