How did the hypertext aspect of these projects affect your writing?
I think that the hypertext aspect of these projects affected my writing because of the need to be concise and to the point when putting together a block of text for a webpage vs. writing a formal essay. I have a tendency to become wordy and abstract when I write formal essays and I think I can get away with it because of the nature of the genre. However, when it comes to writing for the web, everything needs to concise and to the point because your writing for an audience that is compelled to skim through blocks of text and can lose interest very quickly.
What did you already know about web design when you entered the class, what did you learn, and what do you still want or need to learn?
I honestly didn’t know the first thing about web design before coming into this class. I definitely learned how to put together a working first draft of a website however, I think I still need to work on the aesthetic part of creating websites. Now that I understand the basics I need to elaborate on that and find ways to make my sites visually appealing and interactive.
What is it like to have your writing publicly accessible? Did this sort of publication change the way you write?
At first it was a little nerve wracking having my work posted on the internet for everyone and anyone to find. However, after we did a few projects I got used to the idea and was less self-conscious about it. I don’t really think that this sort of publication changed my writing because of it being so publicly accessible, however as I previously said, the fact that the genre of web writing requires different sort of emphasis and conciseness probably caused the most change to be apparent in my writing.
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