Evaluating Websites: Audience
All websites are written with a particular audience
in mind. To determine the audience towards whom a site
is aimed, you may need to do some investigating.
Here are a few things to consider:
- Is the level of the site appropriate for your needs - is it geared towards general readers, elementary school students, high
school students, college students, graduate
students, specialists or professionals, researchers
or scholars?
- Does the text use technical or scholarly
language and assume the reader is educated in that
particular discipline?
- Does the content of the site gloss over several different topics
or does it focus on one issue or topic and explore it in detail?
- Is the website biased towards a certain viewpoint?
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