Communications

Our comunications team supports administrators, staff and volunteers in producing high-quality educational materials. We also serve as the hub for CE promotion, marketing, media relations. and internal relations ("inreach" that connects Cooperative Extension with other UNH departments and offices).

We conduct critical reviews and provide thorough copyediting services for drafts of staff-written books, newspaper articles \opinion pieces, Web content, fact sheets, video text, public testmony, various reports, press releases, promotional literature, instruction manuals, brochures, posters, grant applications and other forms of written communication. We manage our Web homepage as a public-value communication tool.

We work with document designers to publish high-quality printed materials such as books, calendars, and reports.

We also do a lot of original research, interviewing, and writing for Web articles, newsletter columns, press releases, reports, speeches and public testimony.

Finally, we support staff and volunteer development by offering writing, editing, and graphic design workshops and online tutorials.

Marketing/External Relations

• Did You Know
• Enclosure Slips
• Highlights (our semi-annual program report)
• Success Stories

Emergency Communications

• UNHCE Emergency Communications Plan
• UNH Emergency Preparedness Home Page
• UNH Emergency Guide

Helpful Links

• Affirmative Action Statements
• IDEA - Information Development for Expanded Audiences
• NH State Legislature
  • NH House
  • NH Senate
  • Census
• NH State Government Online
• The Community Toolbox
• Photo/Clip Art Database
• UNH Copyright Policies
  
  

Intellectual Honesty and Legal Issues

• Copyright, citing sources and the perils of plagiarism
• Plagiarism: how to recognize and avoid it
• Copyright (and then some from the U.S. Copyright Office)
• Trademarks

Printing Request Form

• Printing Request Form (for statewide and/or vendor orders)

Permission Forms

• Photo Release Form
• Photo Agreement Form

Logos

• UNHCE Logos - large
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• UNHCE Logos - Medium
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Writer Resources

What does an editor do?

General resources

Wikipedia
The Elements of Style (Strunk & White online)
Online dictionary/thesaurus/acronym finder
Tools for writers
Grammar traps
Guide to Grammar and Style
Columbia Journalism Review’s Language Corner
Familiar quotations
Research tools for writers
Writing gender-neutral prose
Using plain language
The plain language network
Forget your math and science terms?
Librarians' Index to the Internet
16 Ways to Sharpen Your Writing
Purdue Online Writing Lab
Writing Op Ed

Writing for the Web

Writing for the Web (MIT libraries guide)
Writing for the Web (online style guide)
How readers read on the Web
Writing for the Web (among the best examples of site/content design)
Applying writing guidelines to Web pages
How people read on the Web
Web writing for many interest levels
10 tips on writing the living Web
Microcontent: How to write headlines, page titles, and subject lines

Literacy matters

Prose literacy
Document literacy
Quantitative literacy (numeracy)
Media literacy
Critical literacy
What is critical literacy?
Reaching low literacy audiences with print material
Writing for lower-literacy readers online
How to write low-literacy materials : National Literacy Study (1992)
Defining and measuring literacy
Health literacy: 2004 Institute of Medicine report (summary)

Writing for/working with adult ESL learners

Family Literacy and Adult English Language Learners
Health Literacy and Adult English Language Learners
Critical literacy for adult language learners
Critical literacy for ESL adult learners

Checking for hoaxes

Urban legends Reference Page
Urban legends and folklore
Hoax Busters
Hoax kill

Checking your sources

Freedom of information resources
Research the research sources you quote (SourceWatch)
Propaganda techniques (rhetorical techniques, logical fallacies, and other persuasive techniques)
Who owns what? What the major media companies own

Usability testing

Step by step Usability Guide
Authentic behavior in user testing
Myths about usability

Word Origins

Online etymological dictionary (word origins)

History of the English language

History of English language links
What we all spoke when the world was very young

Etcetera

Looking for a good cliché (or how to spot one in your own writing)?
Examples of bad writing
Language crimes: A lesson in how not to write (from academia)