 Noticing Newbies: July 03, 2024 Issue [#12597] |
This week: WritingML and Templates for Reviews Edited by: Annette in France  
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WritingML and Templates
WritingML is the site-specific coding language that we use to enlarge, bold, or colorize our writing.
WritingML tools are all over the site with the most important and obvious tools neatly listed in a bar above most text boxes. The more complex WritingML codes that explain how to make the various links is easily accessed from the left sidebar.
 Writing.Com Tools --> WritingML: Docs & Help or WritingML: Emoticons
You can also easily make a link to the WritingML list by typing {code:WritingML}, which yields WritingML Help
One important thing to know about WritingML is that it adds character count to a text.
Here is an example:
"Hello" has 5 characters.
Hello has 55 characters: {c:magenta}{left}{size:4}{b}Hello{/b}{/size}{/left}{/c}
The above example illustrates how a text can use up a lot of characters, but say very little.
It's important to understand the difference between WritingML and templates when an activity or contest asks for a certain character count. Character count is about the number of keystrokes used in a text. This is not a word count. One word can have one character or it can have many characters.
Templates are the lists or scaffoldings we can create to enhance and organize our reviews or even our creative writing items. You can read more about templates in the items listed below that were created by the site and by other members.
If you have created a colorful review template with many preformatted phrases and you merely fill in the blanks with short answers, your actual review content will be a fraction of the visible text. Anything that you have created upfront (before reading a text that you want to review), no matter if simple or elaborate, is the template.
There are reviewing groups and activities that ask for a certain amount of characters in their reviews. Most will explain that they mean "review characters," meaning your original text written in response to a story, poem, or other item type that you are commenting on.
It's perfectly fine to have reviewing templates or to use the features to embellish text here on the site. These features are here to be used. Just don't count WritingML and templates as new, original content.
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