Report

After completing a rhetorical analysis and assessment of your website, you should then compile a report that articulates plan for revision to the website's author or maintainer. (You will not actually submit the report to them, of course, but it should be prepared in every possible way as if you were.) Your report should briefly reflect your understanding of the audience and purpose of the site and articulate a strategy for improving the site based on what you found. Naturally, you should also work to establish a cordial, professional ethos in your report—the sort of ethos that will dispose your "client" to return to you with their business in the future.

Anything is fair game for recommendations:

• usability concerns,
• visual design concerns (think back to the CRAP principles),
• overall writing issues (think to The Yahoo! Style Guide, and plan to include the copy you wrote as an illustration),
• issues with the technical, visual, or multimedia components to the site,
• or anything else that hinders the site's rhetorical effectiveness (as you understand from your rhetorical analysis).

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