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This page goes into detail about designing for your audience. This articles focus is on marketing yourself but the principles could be applied to anything. It goes into a little more detail then the book does, it lists each step for designing for your target audience then follows with a short explanation.

This website states the different audiences for specific interest or group of people. Chapter 1 says: "the more you know about your audience, the better equipped you are to attract their attention..."

A good article about not only knowing your audience, but also about using new technology.

D#1 HW# 13 This website discusses how to best consider who the audience is for a design piece. The information is easy to read and is written rather informally, much as one would talk. The information is broken down into understandable pieces and shows real world examples.

This website begins with a description of the steps in the design process. It covers all of the ones that were also in our textbook such as analyzing audience, determining purpose of message, choosing the right format and layout. There were only four principles covered in this website which were those of balance, emphasis, rhythm which we can consider as flow, and unity which we can consider to be alignment. -What i liked about this website is that it offered explanations about the elements of design such as lines, shapes, and colors. I liked that it gave us the table on the "Psychology of color". It will be very useful especially when we think about the objective and audience of the message.

This website provided useful tips about the elements of design such as color, lines, and shapes that will be helpful when beginning to design. It will also help when considering who your target audience is and what the objective is!

 Although visually pretty dry, has a pretty comprehensive treatment of design basics.

Ch 1 Page 4 - discusses importance of who the audience is. Demographics play a part in that research.

This has a lot of information about how to address audiences and their expectations.

Understanding the Audience For a Technical Writing Project

This website discusses the format and purpose of a formal report. The different kinds of professionals that use this report need to know who the intended readers are.

This website contained a lot of information that just gave an overview on the basics of formal reports. It also explained how formal reports differ from an informal way of reporting information. It also split a formal report into 3 sections that I did not see in the other website I found. In this one it states that there is front matter, main text, and back matter. Each of these contains different sections within as well. Very helpful for when we have to work on Project #3!

I like this website because it gives you good explanation on different things you need in a good report. It talks about the front matter like front cover. tittle page, contents page and summary. Also about the main text like introduction, discussion, conlcusion. Back matter is also important with the appendices and glossary.

Although this website is giving tips to an audience hoping to increase their blog's popularity, members of the TWC class may also find some of these tips helpful. There are several strategies mentioned that will make the WordPress blogs that are constantly used in this course to be easier to read, more organized, and more inviting to the intended audience.

Great information about increasing your blog traffic.  Search Engine Optimization!!!

This website gives very important guidance to learning how to self-evaluate your blog. The steps involved with evaluating your blog include: read your post, read it aloud, ask big questions, and lastly read it again. When reading it, silently or aloud, it is important to focus on what you like about the post and what you dislike. When reading it out loud, make sure the words create a flow that is easy for the audience to follow.

A whole site dedicated to using Wordpress! There are so many themes that it's incredibly difficult to choose!  This site suggests going through the various view options, such as the front page view, single page view, and the comments, and them comparing how each appear. Is the sidebar present in all views or just some? Does the header change, etc.? The author of this site suggests going through and investigating every aspect of the new theme. The site also lists the various layout options and also suggests that content match theme. What impression do I wish my audience to have?

According to this website, immediacy allows for a synthetic experience of reality that generated real emotions. For example, a horror film that has its viewers clutching their seats and jumping at the slightest noise has achieved immediacy. The film transcends its status as just that; a staged, planned, and recorded movie. It becomes "real" for the audience. Hypermediacy, on the other hand, calls attention to the medium. This would occur while watching a film and reveling in its special effects created by computer. Here is a good explanation of the relationship between immediacy and hypermediacy: "Immediacy erases that limits of what we are capable of experiencing, while hypermediacy gives us the power and the means by which to experience it."

This site offers quizzes to see if I'm understanding the concepts! It also presents some good pointers about avoiding making a joke or overwhelming the reader with technical information that isn't necessary. It also suggests the use of the present tense. Through its examples, this site in particular emphasizes that in writing instructions, keep the audience in mind. This will be important for me to remember when working on my project.

This site specifically relates to graphic design, but still demonstrates design basics. It looks at such things as target audiences and knowing the message you want to send.

This site demonstrates the process of design basics. It specifically refers to graphic design, and shows the importance of knowing your target audience and the message you want to send.

This web page discusses the graphic design process, a concept discussed on pages 14 and 15 of Lisa Graham's Basics of Design Layout & Typography for Beginners: Second Edition.

Audience, layout, color and more are covered with many good links.

Good usage of layout and placement of visual elements on this website. It's catchy for their audience because of their design and color.

This article provides an additional perspective of the "media revolution."  In its ability to transmit knowledge, a medium is a catalyst to open up new possibilities and perspectives to its audience. The media revolution took place when digitalization became a global and universal process. It is also described here as "irreversible;" it involves a great deal of change at the economic, social, political, and cultural levels of a society. This article also covers the process of shifting into a more computerized state; the first stage, for example, involves adapting traditional tasks from the old medium to the new. From there, the people speculate about the future.

This article is about effective copywriting. It beaks down the process into 10 simple guidelines that you should always follow when writing copy. 1. Exploit your products benefits. 2. Exploit your competitions weakness. 3. Know your audience. 4. Communicate: Whats in it for me? 5. Focus on "you" not "we." 6. Understand your medium. 7. Avoid too much information. 8. Include a call to action. 9. C.Y.A. (cover you a**) 10. Proofread.