For my primary text on the upcoming essay I am using the Association for Computing Machinery website. The website has several unwritten rules for writing. The website uses a formal tone, as can be seen through its use of formal grammar and complete sentences rather than short descriptions. The writing is highly technical, as it uses several acronyms without describing what the acronyms stand for. Finally, the writing is divided into categories allowing the reader to find the information that they are looking for through short titles and descriptions, leading to an article which expounds upon these descriptions.

The website connects itself to the computer science discourse community by covering topics that relate to the essential to the goals of the community. This is similar to the article that I took from the ACM’s scholarly journal, but is is slightly different because of the digital. Because of the easier navigation offered by the website readers can transfer easier between subjects, so titles are designed to draw readers’ attention, and articles focus more on the most interesting aspects of a story, rather than the more mundane. Readers are also able to be quickly redirected to related articles, which allows the readers to gain a better understanding of their original reading, or it helps them to better understand the impact of other readings. This asserts slightly different connections, by the way it makes the source more of an encyclopedia rather than a news source.