Websites are a genre of technical writing and the easiest to study when first learning what technical communication is and how best to apply its principles to your own documents.
I am going to give you three very different websites and you will need to study them for how well they conform to the principles of technical communication and how successful they are in achieving their goals. I apologize if you find any of these websites offensive. It is not my intent to offend any of you. I only want to provide an interesting and diverse array of websites that you are not likely to be familiar with so we may critique and analyze them.
Please answer the following questions for this week's discussion:
1. Who do you think are the target (primary) readers (audience) of these websites?
2. What is the purpose or subject matter of the websites? Is that purpose clear?
3. What are the persuasive strategies and objectives used by the web page creator(s) to obtain readers? In other words, what choices in design, color, text layout and content did the writers make to best reach their intended audience and keep them interested?
4. Do you think the websites are successful in reaching their intended audience(s)? Why or why not?