Introduction to the GENRE OF WEBSITES
Hello everybody!
As you can clearly understand from the title, this week I'm going to discuss the genre of websites. Just to make it clear, the word "genre" indicates different kinds of literary and artistic works and it deals with conventions and communities of people.
The task of the e-tivity of this week is to start analysing the genre of websites. In particular, we have to choose two websites we put into del.icio.us last week, to identify the audience to which the two websites are addressed and finally, to analyse the language features.
The two websites I have chosen are "English Learning" and "A Genre Analysis of Blogs" (home page: "Into the Blogsphere"). The reason why I have chosen these websites is that they are similar as regards their homepages but they differ from one another in their internal pages.
In the home page of "English Learning" you can find a brief introduction which explains to you the aim of this website and in what it consists ("everything, from lessons for students to jobs for teachers..."). Therefore, there is a double audience for this website: English learners and Teachers. Furthermore, this website is characterized by many key-words which are the links to the next pages of the website.
The paragraphs aren't long at all; they are characterized by simple and short sentences which provide a brief explanation on the upper link or of the title.
The language used is descriptive (the authors of the website give an explanation on the aspect you are interested in); it is very simple and concise; the verb tense used in this website is the present tense, and finally, this website presents many hyperlinks.
In the home page of " Into The Blogsphere" there is a brief introduction which explains to you what this website is (" This online, edited collection explores discursive, visual, social, and other communicative features of weblogs. Essays analyze and critique situated cases and examples drawn from weblogs and weblog communities."). Its aim is to provide pieces of information about the blogsphere.
There are few paragraphs characterized by complete and simple sentences; the language used in the home page is informative and informal; but if we click on a link, for example on "Blogging as Social Action: A Genre Analysis of the Weblog" we realise that the language used in this page is formal and therefore, it is different from that used in the front page; probably this is due to the fact that the audience the two pages are addressed to chances; the audience of the home page is represented by people who have been using the blogsphere for the very first time, whereas that of the link I clicked on is represented by academics.
The verb tenses used are the present tense and the present perfect. Moreover, the conditional is used as well.
In the home page there are many links and hyperlinks.
Summing up, I can state that the home pages of the websites I chose are very similar to each other; however, the structure of the internal pages of the two websites and the language used are very different from one another (short paragraphs and informal language on the one hand; long paragraphs and formal language on the other hand).
Well, that's all for the moment!
Bye
Barbara
Hello everybody!
As you can clearly understand from the title, this week I'm going to discuss the genre of websites. Just to make it clear, the word "genre" indicates different kinds of literary and artistic works and it deals with conventions and communities of people.
The task of the e-tivity of this week is to start analysing the genre of websites. In particular, we have to choose two websites we put into del.icio.us last week, to identify the audience to which the two websites are addressed and finally, to analyse the language features.
The two websites I have chosen are "English Learning" and "A Genre Analysis of Blogs" (home page: "Into the Blogsphere"). The reason why I have chosen these websites is that they are similar as regards their homepages but they differ from one another in their internal pages.
In the home page of "English Learning" you can find a brief introduction which explains to you the aim of this website and in what it consists ("everything, from lessons for students to jobs for teachers..."). Therefore, there is a double audience for this website: English learners and Teachers. Furthermore, this website is characterized by many key-words which are the links to the next pages of the website.
The paragraphs aren't long at all; they are characterized by simple and short sentences which provide a brief explanation on the upper link or of the title.
The language used is descriptive (the authors of the website give an explanation on the aspect you are interested in); it is very simple and concise; the verb tense used in this website is the present tense, and finally, this website presents many hyperlinks.
In the home page of " Into The Blogsphere" there is a brief introduction which explains to you what this website is (" This online, edited collection explores discursive, visual, social, and other communicative features of weblogs. Essays analyze and critique situated cases and examples drawn from weblogs and weblog communities."). Its aim is to provide pieces of information about the blogsphere.
There are few paragraphs characterized by complete and simple sentences; the language used in the home page is informative and informal; but if we click on a link, for example on "Blogging as Social Action: A Genre Analysis of the Weblog" we realise that the language used in this page is formal and therefore, it is different from that used in the front page; probably this is due to the fact that the audience the two pages are addressed to chances; the audience of the home page is represented by people who have been using the blogsphere for the very first time, whereas that of the link I clicked on is represented by academics.
The verb tenses used are the present tense and the present perfect. Moreover, the conditional is used as well.
In the home page there are many links and hyperlinks.
Summing up, I can state that the home pages of the websites I chose are very similar to each other; however, the structure of the internal pages of the two websites and the language used are very different from one another (short paragraphs and informal language on the one hand; long paragraphs and formal language on the other hand).
Well, that's all for the moment!
Bye
Barbara
posted by Barbara @ 12:46 AM
1 Comments:
At 3:32 AM,
Giorgia said…
Hi Barbara,
I just tell you a thing... I had decided to comment on your analysis, but then I thought to look on my blog if I had some comments and.... there was yours!! I would like to say we are telepathic (I don't know if this word exists in English, I will check..).
Concerning your analysis on genre, I think you've done a very good job: You've been concise but at the same time very clear and complete. You wrote an introduction where you explained the task of this week and then you divided your text in paragraphs, where each one of these reflected on one of the websites you chose.
The first has almost the same features as the websites I chose: simple language, present tense and many hyperlinks; this is not very strange as the audience is the same!
I was interested in reading also the analysis you did on the second websites because I visited it but I did not decide to comment on that; I completely agree with your reflections but I would add (if I can) that this website is intended for an audience which is native speakers or which at least understands very well English.
Well, repeating you that your job, in my opinion is very good, I hope you'll have a nice week!!
Bye
Giorgia
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