Chapter 2: Writing for Many Media

I thought this whole chapter was extremely interesting. Part of the reason I felt this way was because it seems like all of the other technical writing classes I have taken give the same information on writing effectively. However, chapter 2 was relating these writing tips to multimedia rather than relating them to print documents, which is why I learned about them before. It was interesting to learn the reasoning behind these suggestions for effective writing as far as multimedia in concerned. For example, one area that I thought was particularly fascinating was the "Web Writing Tips from Usability Experts" section. I had just learned today in my Writing in Professional Contexts class that we should put the most important information at the beginning of the articles that we are writing so that information after that can be cut out if it needs to. It was interesting for me to have the textbook for this writing for interactive media class essentially tell me the same thing with the reasoning that most people who view websites are looking for specific information and don't want to read the entire text to discover that the site wasn't what they were looking for.