Guide to Web Writing

The information on your site is important to students, prospective students, the community, and other audiences. Here are guidelines to help you create and correctly format your site content.

Web content basics

Essential elements of web content for UMass Dartmouth's website.

Writing for the web

Best practices for creating web content.

Links

Tips for adding links to your content.

Using PDFs

Appropriate uses for PDFs.

University identification

How to refer to UMass Dartmouth and UMass Law correctly.

Style tips

Tips for abbreviations, acronyms, word use and capitalization, numbers, time, academic degrees, ethnicities, states, seasons, and more.

Punctuation

How to use periods, commas, quotation marks, hyphens, dashes, etc.

Commonly confused words & phrases

A list of words and phrases that are often confused and misused.

Resources

Online style and writing resources.