The effectiveness of the purpose of this text: a screenshot of a webpage from the 1996 encarta describing 'Fractals'.

This text is a screenshot of the 1996 Encarta Encyclopaedia. The purpose of this text is to inform young people about fractals. Being of a CD-ROM format rather than a volume of books, it is suggested that the program is intended for a younger audience. A computer screenshot is characterized by the various layout features shown in this text. This includes interactive media such as links to other pages. The type of text is an encyclopaedia …showed first 75 words of 724 total…

…showed last 75 words of 724 total…text. The purpose of this text is to inform young people about fractals. As far as language and layout are concerned, this text has a lot of improvement required before it effectively employs its purpose for the intended. The structure of the page is effective however the images and links are not effective in giving instruction. The language is all together far too advanced for the intended audience making its purpose to inform very ineffective.