Write a critique of two hospital websites chosen from this list. You want to choose a site that you think is effective and one which is ineffective.
Focus: Pretend you are a practitioner and you want to send patients to this hospital website for information. Look at the site through that lens. How well do you think your patients will fare in getting supplemental information from the site?
Criteria: Audience awareness, clarity, accessibility, language, effective use of images.
Background: Take what you’ve learned from analyzing documents, audience, etc and apply it to the websites from the list. Are these sites easy to navigate? Can you find information quickly? How about the language? Is it appropriate for the general public or not? Explain why. Should there be alternate language versions? Be specific in your explanations of why you think the site is effective.
Tips: Compare another site where your choice does better in a specific category. For instance, Site # 1 incorporates an overall design that is clean and easy to navigate, especially in comparison to Site # 2, which has a very busy layout and a hard-to-find navigation menu.
The best critiques are usually those that include many concrete illustrative examples.
Your perspective is that of a doctor or nurse or other practitioner imagining an average person visiting these sites. You need to try to put yourself in the place of a patient navigating these sites for important information.
Submission Guidelines:
This assignment should be approximately 750 words. You will be graded on how well you illustrate the criteria above. Include hyperlinks to the sites you chose. Reference specifics from that site (a specific page or area on a page…wording, images, etc.)
You can use personal pronouns.
You must have a Works Cited section.
Be sure to double space.
would like to use two of these websites:
https://www.nyp.org
https://www.cedars-sinai.org/home.html
https://www.dukehealth.org/hospitals/duke-university-hospital
https://www.mayoclinic.org
