Connecting Web and Paper

There are many comparisons between paper writing and web writing. Looking over the assigned readings I have chosen a couple of examples of how web pages connect to paper writing.

The strongest connection between the two styles of writing is the concept of writing about the subject. According to the SpiderPro website, it is important to stick to the concept you are writing about. As in the readings of Skunk and Williams and others, writers should construct sentences in which are topic oriented and well organized. This concept applies to many of the rules found on this website that all correlate back together, such as writing for a specific audience, using short concise sentences without the filler words.

When pulling up a web page the reader wants to be able to navigate throughout it and find specifically what they are looking for. Just as a writer should do when writing on paper-organize your thoughts in a manner that is simple and easy for the reader to navigate through. Writers in either manner do not want their audience to give up when reading their pieces of writing because it is simply to hard to get through.

Another similarity that I see between web writing and paper writing is asking your audience for feedback. It is important for us in this class to allow others to edit our papers and offer constructive criticism and advice in order to make our papers the best they can be. As in a web page it is important to receive feedback from our web audience about how to improve the quality of our writings and layout of web pages.

When using different sources for our writings it is important to cite our sources. In paper writing we use a Works Cited page and in web pages we use Links to link our readers to that specific page for that information.

To me the differences are obvious. We can do a lot more in web writing, as far as imagery and text and color than we can in paper writing. Layouts could be different between the two styles of writing. It's easier to sit here and type this blog rather than write it out by hand.