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Untangling the Web: A Web Page Rhetoric
(Links on this page will take you to another Bedford/St. Martin's Web Site)
What are some of the characteristics of a good Web page?
What sort of information do good Web pages include or
exclude? How are Web pages different from traditional
print essays? And how should students and teachers evaluate
Web pages? These are just a few of the provocative
questions that are raised as writers begin to look more
closely at the discursive practices of the World Wide Web.
This page of the St. Martin's Guide to Writing Web Site is
one entry into this complicated debate, even though it does
not give definitive answers to questions about Web page
conventions. After all, the World Wide Web is still new and
in a state of fluid change, and scholars and practitioners in
the field of electronic rhetoric and writing have only begun
to discuss and suggest guidelines for evaluating Web sites
and composing on the Web. This page presents one possible
starting point for writing and evaluating Web pages.
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