Talk:Elements of Political Communication

Transcluding updates from Talk:Introduction
I have transcluded my first two updates from the talk page of the Elements of Political Communication/Introduction to here:

Updates 2012-07-16
In case anyone is keeping track (highly doubtful), I have made a lot of changes in the last few weeks: General guidelines. Runfellow (discuss • contribs) 22:32, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Since they generally applied to most any political communication, not just written, I have changed the name of the "General writing guidelines" to
 * Those guidelines have been split into ten seven basic sub-chapters. The primary purpose of the restructuring is to allow for room to grow content. Some of the pages are kind of sparse right now, but I plan to add a number of things, including "quiz" questions for each sub-chapter.
 * The chapters for op-eds/letters and press releases have been turned into sub-chapters, underneath a "Traditional media guidelines" page that comprises both, but not a whole lot on its own page right now. I'll add more later.
 * Rather than a "Digital media formats" page separate from a "Digital media guidelines" chapter, I have separated social media and websites. The two are very related, but I plan to add much more to the website section later, and this makes it more consistent with the traditional media guidelines chapter.
 * I plan to add a "Spoken message guidelines" chapter, as well as sub-chapters regarding speeches and debates (or as they're commonly [and ridiculously] referred to on the local level, "forums"). This is one of the major reasons for changing the name of the general guidelines chapter. They will also apply to most speaking engagements.
 * I have changed the title format on all the pages using the Displaytitle template. I'm not sure if anyone is going to freak out about that or not, but there it is.
 * The "Glossary page needs to be expanded and it's very simple, but it's not bad.
 * The "References now use hanging indent. They include extensive use of citation templates.
 * The "Authors" page is now back in the TOC, perhaps simply in an effort to convince more people to contribute.
 * Not counting wiki markup (just actual printed words), the book is approximately 9,182 13,000 words long.

To do
Updated – Runfellow (discuss • contribs) 21:32, 15 November 2012 (UTC)