Web verses Paper Writing

·In many ways writing for the web is like writing on paper. You have an audience, a purpose, and a subject. You must also be grammatically correct have organized thoughts.

·Writing on the web must be concise and easy to read. People read web writing slower than paper based writing; so web based writing needs to be well organized and easy to scan.

·Graphics play a big role in web based writing. You need to be able to catch the audience’s attention so that they will read what is on your web page. Not only can you use graphics to catch the audience’s attention, you can also use video and audio when writing on the web.

·With web based writing, you can use hyperlinks to easily send people to other information sites. On paper based documents, the reader would have to go find the supplemental information.

·With web based writing, it is easier and faster to reach a larger audience than with a paper based document.