Connecting Paper Style

The first similarity I see between paper style and web style is in the planning. This is something that I feel strongly about because I myself am a big organizer when it comes to writing. As far as writing style goes, it is often important to create some type of outline or webbing guide to track your thoughts. One of the main components is to know your audience. When writing a paper, it is very important that you are writing to the intended audience or you will use you reader. This is something that on the Lynch and Horton website, "Web Style Guide". The writers of this site say, "The knowledge, background, interests, and needs of users will vary from tentative novices who need a carefully structured introduction to expert 'power users' who may chafe at anything that seems to patronize them or delay their access to information." This is important in both web style as well as in paper style.

As far as differences go, this is a little more obvious. Of course, in webpages, site design is considered on of the more important aspects of the process. A direct homepage is very important in webstyle. Keeping things as simple as possible is key in making a sound homepage. This is something that while writing a paper an author does not have to put much thought into. While an author of a paper needs to grab the readers attention with words, the author of a webpage needs to grab the readers attention with graphics and layout.