Question

HTML CONCLUSION for computer project

Answer 1

It could probably be argued that most of the purposes contained in these HTML exercises could also be attained without reference to HTML; that, in fact, HTML is unnecessary for raising issues of audience, purpose, design, and accessibility. This is undoubtedly true: my purpose here is to indicate that learning HTML need not be a barrier to learning writing, that it is possible to use HTML to address writing issues. I do not argue that teachers must teach HTML in a web writing class, or even that they should teach it. My point is that they can teach it without doing violence to the teaching of writing. HTML instruction and writing instruction need not be exclusive categories; there are ways of integrating the two. And the advantages, in terms of providing our students with power over the medium itself, are unquestionable. Even if students ultimately return to an authoring program, they need to know what's happening beneath that bland exterior, and they need to know how to take control of what's happening if necessary. And, in fact, that's the ultimate goal here: learning and teaching HTML is about learning and teaching control. As Muriello, et al. point out, "Perhaps in the long run teaching students how to use HTML codes is, in fact, the most empowering approach because it places them in a position to create, own, and publish meaningful writing on the web" (416). When we deny our students that knowledge, we deny them a fundamental tool in becoming web writers.