Forms, information for prospective student-athletes.
Resources for New Authors
Web:
Jakob Nielson's Web site has become a sort of usability bible. His consulting firm has extensively studied writing for the Web. Just search his site using the keyword, "writing."
Applying Writing Guidelines to Web Pages
While this article suggests that education debilitates writers (not true), it has some good stuff in it --
http://www.wordbiz.com/archive/copywriting_tips.shtml
Gerry McGovern is a web consultant-good guidelines, but don't take his specifications too seriously. http://www.gerrymcgovern.com/nt/2003/nt_2003_04_28_writing_1.htm
Passive vs. Active, very important on the web:
http://www.grokdotcom.com/thinkactive.htm
And if you liked that one, there's a whole riff on verbs:
http://www.grokdotcom.com/pumpupyourverbs.htm
Books:
Elements of Style, Strunk & White. The bible of writing.
Don't Make Me Think! Stephen Krug. The bible of web communications.
The Associated Press Stylebook, Norm Goldstein, ed.
Content Strategy for the Web, Kristina Halvorson. The newest thinking on best practices for creating, organizing and managing web content.