Online Writing excercise 1

San Francisco Chronicle website


a) Do the news items reflect immediacy? Yes, the news items do ref elect immediacy because the front page story are the main thing that one first sees hen they go on to the website.

b) Does the site try to help readers save time? Yes, the site does try to save readers time by having different categories of news on the left hand side of the website. The website also has the weather and stock information on top of the screen;since those are items people may check daily.

c) Is it quick and easy to get information? It is easy to get to the different articles but the page is a bit cluttered, overall it is OK.

d) Does it provide both visual and verbal information? Yes, the website does include visuals and picture to go along with stories and very good verbal information, easy to understand.

e) Do the stories contain lists and bullets to make them easier to scan? The stories do not contain bullets but are double spaced and underlined. The side column with the categories however does contain bullets.

f) Are the stories broken into “chunks”? Some of the stories are broken into chunks depending on the size of the story they are broken into chunks for easier reading.

g) Do stories provide hyperlinks to additional information? Yes, all the stories provide a hyperlink at the end of each one providing further information.

h) Are there opportunities for readers to "talk back"? There is a blog section that people can write back and each article has a comments section if readers would like to leave a comment.

i) Does the site use multimedia to enhance understanding and add appeal? Some of major stories offer multimedia like podcast,video, sideshows and audio clips.