Style Guide

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GUIDANCE FOR EDITORS

These style guidelines are specific to Our Blocks. We’re evolving; your suggestions are welcome (please reply below):

• Use Categories and Tags to help us keep the articles organized.
• If there’s an article you’d want to work on (or wish someone else would), post it onto the blog, and tag it “todo“.
• Tags should include name of author, organization (initials), main topics covered by the article.
• End each post with a line that contains the source, including the name of the author and article, where applicable. Please link back to the original sources whenever possible.
• In addition to linking to the original material, link to author bios.
• Link to organizations and other resources from within the text, where applicable.
• Set links to open in a new window (from the Target dropdown, choose Open in a New Window).
• Break up long articles with the More tag on the toolbar.
• After summaries are created, link back from the link to the summary rather than to the source – particularly useful when the source is a pdf/doc (ie no summaries were provided by the publisher).

How do I find articles to edit?

• Browse the articles tagged “todo“.
• Browse our Readling Lists for recommended articles that had not yet been processed.
• You’re not limited to our selections. If you come across articles you want to share, just go ahead and share them.
• If you want to add to our collection of Community Stories (which are about ordinary people doing extraordinary things for their neighborhoods), search the news with relevant keywords, like these for example:  “help community neighbor“.