how do I evaluate a web page?
To EVALUATE is to judge the quality, effectiveness or credibility of something.
Texts can be valued in many ways. For this exercise we will be evaluating the effectiveness of webpage features in conveying ideas and information to an audience. Basically we are asking the questions..
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LEARNING GOALS
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how to evaluate...
Visit https://nobullying.com/gender-stereotypes/ and assess the website. You have already used it to get a clearer understanding of the issue. Did you find it effective? Why/Why not? Let's look more closely at the individual features to work out what they are doing and how they are affecting the audience or making information more accessible.
EVALUATING THE TEXT
In order to analyse, we need to do a number of operations. We need to:
- REMEMBER AND IDENTIFY individual features of texts.
- INTERPRET what the feature is doing or meaning.
- ANALYSE the individual features of the work to understand how they work to communicate ideas. Ask yourself, 'What effect does this feature have on the text and its meaning?
- JUDGE the significance of the ideas in the text.
- See if you can IDENTIFY the following features on the webpage?
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2. INTERPRET: What is the meaning conveyed through this feature or section of the text?
3. EXAMINE the feature closely, ANALYSING it to find out how it is effective (or ineffective) at conveying important ideas to the audience. (Does the feature emphasise, clarify, suggest, amplify, elucidate, illustrate, convey, show, resonate, encapsulate, imply, facilitate. enable, etc ...)
4. JUDGE the significance of the feature and meaning and make a comment on how it contributes to the effectiveness of the webpage in achieving its goals.
5. CREATE your own webpage, using a range of features to convey ideas about discrimination.
Your website should include:
1. A Discrimination page with
Your website should include:
1. A Discrimination page with
- A definition of discrimination
- Annotated links to other places a reader can get information on discrimination
- Other useful or appealing information or images.
- A self composed poem
- An analytical essay on a discrimination poem
- Links to other poems that inspired your poetry with a brief explanation of how they inspired you (extra credit)
- A review of at least one text you have studied this semester
- You could consider a page on discrimination art and your own artistic composition in whatever medium you like with a brief analysis of your work.
- A feature article or blog on one aspect of discrimination of your own choice.
- An annotated bibliography of good resources for studying or learning about discrimination.