(1) Entertaining - http://9gag.com/
This is the site where all the humorous
postings are updated. Sometimes it posts photo with funny words or entertaining
videos such as "Coffee table and lamp made from a corvette engine."
with the awkward photo. With the photos and vides published by this site, you
can enjoy them and be entertained when you have free time or do not have
anything to do.
(2) Informative - http://edition.cnn.com/
Worldwide news articles are updated on this
site. Political, economic and social articles are dealt in this site across the
world. The articles are quite serious and handles real world such as "The last moments of Flight 9525"
so if you are interested in the current issue, you can search for it here.
(3) Persuasive - http://www.gumtree.com.au/
People can post their own advertisements on
this site. In writing, they persuade site users to buy their items such as room
for rent, used cars, used table or new cosmetics and so on. The writers post
photos of their items to persuade readers much more effectively and inform the
required information also. So this site can be categorized in persuasive
writing and informative writing.
(4) Evaluative -
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Many writers review the restaurants or hotels that
they used before on this site. They can evaluate the place where they went from
1 to 5. The site has worldwide reviews so when people go abroad and have
something, they find the evaluation of others here.
(5) Expressive -
http://www.free-opinion.com/KR/EN/Worldwide users write their opinions on the
specific issue that is published by someone else in this site. For example, the
site asks people to vote and share the opinions on the topic like "Israel
vs. Hezbollah, What do you think is peaceful?". But this is not as serious
as the editorial or other formal writings because the opinions can be expressed
by anyone else and the writing is very short and seems like a comment on a
blog.
I think all websites you wrote are almost fit the purposes. GIF images in '9gag.com' are really entertaining me, 'tripadvisor.com' is about evaluating hotels that I can refer to. And 'free-opinion.com' is an expressing website anyone can post their own thoughts briefly, not to mention 'CNN.com' is an informative website. Plus, although there're many informative writings in 'gumtree.com', it still fits the persuasive purpose in terms of writers' using temptational words. Personally, 'free-opinion.com' seems interesting to me because the way people lightly discuss profound issues looks good to me.
ReplyDeleteI have been watching funny images from 9gag.com for long time on facebook. The joke style of american website is a bit different from Korean website, but I think it is fun though. However, I noticed that when I try to translate those joke into Korean, it starts to feel like not funny at all.
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