Question of the Week 12/5

This semester, I have learned that there are many forms of Web writing --more than I had previously thought. I learned that, for example, writing for blogs or writing for a newspaper's web site are two approaches to web writing with different characteristcs and a different way of being written.

Another thing I learned, which I think is one of the most significant difference between Web writing and other forms of writing is that Web writing is very simplistic. You can't use complicated words or descriptions and you aren't writing in paragraph form, so your sentences are often shorter, sometimes even fragments. In Web writing, it is important to group the information so it is easy to read on the page, with the use of headings or lists, and making breaks between paragraphs. In other forms of writing, paragraphs are several sentences long. In web writing, any paragraph over two sentences can seem lengthy.