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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