WEB160 » Writing for the What?!
Writing for the web will:
- transform our old ideas of audience, structure and style
- see that concept that we have inherited for writing for print media will begin to evolve and may even disappear
Our audience on the web:
- is no longer just a passive recipient of information that we want to give them
- might be the ones who start the communication, ask the questions and demand responses from us
We will find ourselves:
- abandoning the idea of writing whole documents as a piece of fine literature and begin to focus on the components of those documents
- writing in a medium that is read on a monitor which makes our text harder to read, more difficult to grasp as a whole and more blurry in our memories
See Also:
- Understanding the Effect of “Writing for the Web” on Comprehension and Retention Rates | HCDE516 | Mike Sinkula
- Concise, SCANNABLE, and Objective: How to Write for the Web, by John Morkes and Jakob Nielsen
- How Little Do Users Read?, by Jakob Nielsen
- Writing Web Content | Usability.gov
This portion of the Premium Design Works website is written by Mike Sinkula for the Web Design & Development students at Seattle Central College and the Human Centered Design & Engineering students at the University of Washington.
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