Guidelines for the Paper Comparing Web Pages
In this assignment you will read and interpret three or four different Web pages, summarizing their content and form as well as looking for their similarities and differences. You will also envision a particular occupational role for yourself. For example, you can choose to be a Web page designer in a university planning on developing a new page for the institution. In such a case your analysis would focus on good ideas (but probably also point out weaknesses) in the three or four Web pages of other universities.
Your paper must be between 750 and 1000 words, and it must have the following parts:
An introduction making clear what pages you are analyzing and why you are doing so (with the reasons you give being related to the occupational role you imagine for yourself).
Descriptions of each of the pages, with your descriptions following the nine "Criteria for Reading and Analyzing Academic Web Pages," a document printed out earlier in class.
A conclusion that synthesizes your findings. You can also make recommendations if the particular role you have given yourself makes that appropriate.
If you choose this paper as one of your two final projects, you will have to meet the deadlines in the following schedule. For Tuesday (May 15) you must bring for homework a paragraph listing the pages (as well as the pages themselves) and a description of the occupational role you have chosen. For Thursday (May 17) you should have a draft done, and once again, this will be a homework assignment. The following Thursday (May 24) will be the deadline for handing in the paper, which I will be giving a grade.
Some further points:
You will need to hand in the copies of the pages along with your paper: everything should go in the folder. You should also have in the folder the self-portrait that you wrote and the other papers (with every draft). Apart from the papers and the self-portrait, please do not put other material in the folder.
Unlike the first two papers, this one will not get two grades (i.e.,, one for the draft and one for the revision). There will be just the one grade given for the paper as it is on May 24.