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Genre: Text 1
What is it? How do you know?
Text 1 is an article from a website. Below is a screenshot of the original web page that the article was taken from. Certain features have been numbered. Can you spot the features that are only found on web pages?
A BBC Science and Nature webpage
- Lots of colour
- Search box
- Drop down box
- Index
- Images
- Pages
- Print button
- Links
Can you find all the features unique to web pages? Check the table below.
Comparison of features found in webpages and in other texts
| Only web pages | Other texts |
|---|---|
| 2. Search box: Lots of websites include a search box on their pages to help you find exactly what you're looking for. | 1. Different colours: There is a lot of colour here, but using colour is not limited to websites. |
| 3. Drop down box: This enables you to jump to a different section of the website and is, therefore, an interactive feature. | 4. Index: Although this index is in the form of links (ie it doesn't give page numbers), indexes are found in other texts such as books. |
| 7. Print button: This is the biggest clue that the text is online and not from a paper document. | 5. Images: Websites often use images to make their pages more colourful, but other texts often contain images too - especially leaflets and advertisements. |
| 8. Links: The Contact us and Help links are obvious interactive features that are only found on web pages. | 6. Pages: Texts from all genres can contain more than one page. |
Links
On bbc.co.uk
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