Locate a professional online periodical or professional organization’s website that relates to your career or future career

Locate a professional online periodical or professional organization’s website that relates to your career or future career. For example, students majoring in environmental studies can search for Environmental Science and Technology. Students majoring in education can search for the Journal of Teacher Education or ASCD. Student majoring in nursing can search for peer-reviewed journal Nursing Management or the American Organization of Nurse Executive. Business majors can search for the American Management Association or Talent Management. In other words, you can search for any career and find a professional journal.

Review one online technical document related to your Final Project – Recommendation Report. Provide a summary of the article that you chose. Include the name of the article and the website cited in APA style and format. Critique the technical writing of the article. To sufficiently complete this task, you should ask several critical questions such as the following: Who is the editor of the periodical or creator of the website? Are they an expert in the given field? What is the periodical or website’s objective? What sort of articles or information does it include? Is the information presented refereed? What are the submission/publication guidelines for the material included?

To add, organizing and designing web pages should start with a clear purpose and focus on the intended audience. Online readers expect speed and consistency and will quickly leave a site if it is difficult to navigate. Online readers prefer not to scroll horizontally and expect to easily find information from the site’s homepage. Thus, technical writers need to write clear and concise content and create visually appealing websites. Too much text or flashy animations can be distracting for the reader, and too little creativity can make the site bland.

Search the Internet for an example of a website that is well designed and one that is poorly designed. Provide the links to each site. Identify the characteristics that make the good design effective and efficient. Include readability, use of colors, font, and the overall design of the website. Next, identify why the second website is poorly designed and what criteria you used to make your determination. Explain how the poor design is distracting to the reader and how this affects the readability of the content. Then, explain how you would correct the website’s deficiencies. Make sure you include examples and ample details, and be sure the links that you share are academically appropriate.