Sorry to have taken so long getting back to you. I was out of town all of last week and am still catching up on things.
I can PM you with our templates for writing up links.
For a pull quote, we try to find a sentence or three in an article that will give the reader an indication of what the article is about or of the writer's attitude toward the topic. It's often challenging because people don't tend to state their theses very clearly and because a number of writers introduce their articles with lengthy digressions.
When we can't find a good pull quote, we try to write a sentence or two that tells readers what to expect if they follow the link. I most often do that for things like Tor's chapter by chapter rereads, for discussions of specific episodes and such that ramble and cover a lot of different points, and for linkspams focused on a single topic. I also use it for posts where the majority of the meta is discussion in the comments. So an example would be (this is a typical Tor summary): "Summary, discussion and analysis of the chapter in question." Another option might be something like: "Discussion of the episode, mostly in the comments." For a linkspam, I might say something like: "Collection of links relating to the works of Joss Whedon."
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I can PM you with our templates for writing up links.
For a pull quote, we try to find a sentence or three in an article that will give the reader an indication of what the article is about or of the writer's attitude toward the topic. It's often challenging because people don't tend to state their theses very clearly and because a number of writers introduce their articles with lengthy digressions.
When we can't find a good pull quote, we try to write a sentence or two that tells readers what to expect if they follow the link. I most often do that for things like Tor's chapter by chapter rereads, for discussions of specific episodes and such that ramble and cover a lot of different points, and for linkspams focused on a single topic. I also use it for posts where the majority of the meta is discussion in the comments. So an example would be (this is a typical Tor summary): "Summary, discussion and analysis of the chapter in question." Another option might be something like: "Discussion of the episode, mostly in the comments." For a linkspam, I might say something like: "Collection of links relating to the works of Joss Whedon."