I think it's safe to say that if I take anything from this class it will be that everything I learned in high school about writing was wrong. Reading from Krug's book was really interesting because it dispelled, yet again, another writing habit. Before college, and even in some non-writing oriented courses now, I have been assigned a certain length for writing. I often found myself falling just short of that requirement and having to add tons of unnecessary words and statements. Krug's writing teaches that if it isn't necessary, it shouldn't be there. I will keep this idea in mind with my PWS to make sure it is full of substance and not empty words.
I also learned something new from the handout. There have been plenty of times I've been prompted to be persuasive in my writing, and this paper shows the best way to do that. Although your argument is typically focused on what you need or want someone to do, you can't make it about you. Rather, you have to show your audience how the situation will benefit them. Luckily, my call to action really does nothing for me other than getting people to see my point. My topic of running for health is purely beneficial to my audience, which makes persuasion at least a little easier.
The final handout talked about CRAP, which I didn't realize I had violated until now. For example, I have changed my alignments around in previous writings to make a page look more interesting. As the article went on, it talked about repetition, which I now realize is one of those characteristics of all web pages that you never really realize. For example, search bars, links, titles, etc. I will use the information from this reading to design my PWS to be interesting and to the point, all while following the general guidelines of CRAP.
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