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There are so many websites that I visit on a fairly regular basis, so it is difficult to pin point one to write about. The one particular website that I use frequently is www.dictionary.com. One of the main reasons I use this website is because when I read something for school or for other purposes I always seem to come across certain words that are foreign to my vocabulary. This website has helped me time after time to discern those foreign words into something meaningful and understandable.
The main focal point of this website consists of a search engine box on the top right corner, and five tabs just below the search engine box. These are all the necessary tools to properly and effectively navigate the website. The five tabs below the search engine box are labeled as follows, Dictionary, Thesaurus, Encyclopedia, All Reference, and The Web. Each one of these tabs is linked to another section of the website, which are designed to assist the main website. The main purpose of the website is to define the meaning of words, one word at a time, plus give you all the possible information about that word. For example, if one does not know what the definition of a cat is, then they would just type the word cat in the search engine box, and hit the enter key on their keyboard. The website www.dictionary.com would then look up the word cat in its database and come back with a variety of responses of what cat means. Also, the tabs on the websites would help gather more information on the word cat, for example the tab thesaurus would find the entire thesaurus for the word cat. The same goes for the rest of the tabs, they are there to help gather information on what ever word is typed into the search engine box.
The genre of the website would be simply considered a dictionary, one can quickly use to look up the definition of words. Some of the conventions of the website would be how the website breaks down the word it is defining. Whatever the word may be that the website is defining, it breaks the word down into its noun, verb, idiom, abbreviation, etc… form. The website also alters some of its conventions depending on the word that is typed in its search engine box. For example, the words principle and principal, both sound the same, but are two completely different words. For this reason the website would alter its convention to fit the meaning of each word. The word principle would have a completely different set of nouns, verbs, idioms, abbreviations, etc… than the word principal and vice versa.
The medium of web-based writing, such as blogging differs from traditional print/paper based writing in the following simple way. The print/paper based writing consumes paper, which consumes trees, and the blogging does not. Another way they both differ is that anyone can create a blog and post random writing in it, but not just anybody can have something printed and published in a print/paper based writing.