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The Good Web-Writing Guide

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When you publish on the internet, you address a potential audience of 300 million English-speakers but first you must compete with the thousands of other hopeful citizen journalists. How do you write successfully for the internet and impress the professionals? From glamour.com to BBC News Interactive Garry Lemon gets the answers.

The Graduate Entrepreneur

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Starting your own business – who hasn’t thought about it? You get to be your own boss, choose what hours you work and best of all, every penny that you earn goes straight into your own pocket. It’s a wonderful idea. It just doesn’t seem particularly realistic, does it? Or at least that is the conclusion some graduates are reluctantly arriving at.

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ADVERTISING

Many creative graduates, especially those with non-vocational degrees, find that they have broad areas of interest in which to pursue potential careers. If you are prepared to be proactive, there’s no need to limit yourself to one avenue of creativity.

CHARITIES

Ceri Clements, director of the Bristol 'Hub',  on running an 'innovation environment' and supporting the development of new social businesses.

CRAFT

Eleanor Bird has quickly established herself as one of the UK's leading contemporary stained glass artists.

DESIGN

Good design can increase sales and build reputation but small businesses often miss out on these benefits.

FASHION

Emerging designers in fashion and the arts have endless reasons to be grateful to Lee Lapthorne.

HERITAGE

Archivist Anne Morgan challenges preconceptions about careers in the heritage sector, explains the joys of working with personal correspondence and shares her favourite jokes about archivists.

1) Could you begin by describing a 'average' day for an archivist working for a city council?

LIVE ARTS

In 2005, journalist Phil Hebblethwaite and design specialist Mickey Gibbons left their respective jobs to set up an independent and entirely free music periodical.

MEDIA

Having had involvement of most areas of music business over the last ten years I have learnt it is an industry that works like no other. The harsh reality for graduates is that the challenges of gaining employment in this field are no different whether you powered your way to a 1st or smoked your way to a 2:2.

PUBLISHING

Eighteen months ago I announced my first job, as editorial assistant on a gardening magazine.

TEACH

Not many academics can saddle a horse, let alone make said saddle. But then Paul McDonald has followed a refreshingly different path into academia. Now Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Wolverhampton (where he runs the Creative and Professional Writing Programme), Paul began his career after leaving school at 16 to train as a saddle-maker.

VISUAL ARTS

Tucked away above a restaurant on Islington's busy Upper Street, the unassuming frontage of Hollow Contemporary Art belies the ambition of its owner.

WRITING

Alain de Botton is a writer of essayistic books that have been described as a 'philosophy of everyday life.' He's written on love, travel, architecture and literature.