"Writing abstracts is an important cognitive exercise that provides you with a concrete overview of your own work. Writing the abstract forces you to pare away the inessential and define the essential" - Porush
Abstracts in cyber space are like road signs on the highway, they let you now what your about to run into. The concept of using an abstract has even more significance in our hyper media forum than it does in plain paper publishing. Using an abstract to describe the essence of your website is beneficial for both the developer and the user. The inherent attributes of electronic media causes readers to be very selective about what they take the time to read (relevance). Since there is only so much you can do to intice relevance your better option is to concentrate on reaching all of your currently interested audience. Herein lies the true power of a good hyper-abstract. Your abstract is your website's advertising campaign in a nut shell. A good abstract describes your work by communicating only the most salient features which will either confirm a reader interest in your topic or attract the curious.
For our final class project we are developing a website that has a very heterogeneuos content. Our goal is to coordinate all of these sites into a web that is user friendly to everyone. Ideally, readers with interest in a particular catagory should find it easy to access just those sites. However, we still want to maintain a high degree of integrity throughought the project. This is essential for marketing our website as an entity.
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