4. How is writing for the web different from writing for print?
Now that you've blogged, and analyzed bloggers and their bloggy ways, what have you learned about how writing for the web is different from writing for print media? Reflect on your own experience drafting and developing your Blog Genre Analysis. How was this writing similar to/different from the sorts of writing you usually do? (You might think about the rhetorical triangle - audience, purpose, context, your image as a writer -- or about the ways the production process and delivery system changes your work process as a writer.)
Lostblog Preservation
2 years ago
Writing for the web is very different from writing for print. The only way it is similar is the actual process of deciding what to write and how to say it and then editing for errors.
ReplyDeleteWeb writing is different because formating is a much larger issue than for print. You need to think about colors, fonts, images, logos, etc... and for print it is all about the text and maybe a catchy title.
Web writing also includes all the problems of actually putting the writing on the web and getting it to look how you had it on paper. You don't have all those problems with print and this makes web writing take more time than print, just when you thought it couldn't be any more time consuming!
Web writing is also supposed to be short and to the point, which is different from print. I still feel like my writing is not long enough and therefore not good enough.
On the web, you are supposed to arrive at the main point in the beginnning, where as in print you usually build up your argument to a conclusion.
Also, your audience for the web is exponentially larger. For print you are usually writing for your instructor only or the academic community.
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