What is 3D writing?

The Headstart course can be delivered in a classroom, or it can be delivered on line via its own web site.

For that reason, the materials you produce should be suitable for classroom and face to face teaching. But they should also be suitable for online learning.

If they are to be suitable for both these forms of delivery, it is important that you keep the principles of 3D writing in mind as you compose your materials.

Writing composed for the page will be in two dimensions.

The flat A4 page has width and height, but no 'depth'. this is what's called 'hard copy'.

However, materials written for the screen have links between the pages. The pages therefore have a 'depth' which give them an extra dimension.

So, from a writer's point of view, it's necessary to think both flat and virtual. As you're writing on a paper page or on your computer screen, you've got to be accommodating the levels of the website and the links across the texts.

This means that you are writing for two slightly different purposes at the same time.

Fortunately, materials suitable for on screen use can also be used in a classroom. The same isn't always true the other way round.

So if you keep the principles of writing for the screen in mind most of the time, you will not go far wrong.

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