COM 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Clip Art, Five Ws, Ibm Officevision

• School: Tunxis Community College
• Department: Communication
• Course: COM 100
• Professor: Clark

Document Summary

Numbering: what does not need to be numbered: pull quotes, a lone table, clip arts. Titles and captions: graphs and table should all be titled, use the 5 w"s for the caption. Rule: visuals need to be part of the document and not compete with the document! Defaults (always use defaults: accepted, expected, universal. Grids, spacing, and margins: grids help u plan headings and sub headings, help place the text precisely and consistently, margins: think of the document as a framed picture. Be mindful of white space: help with aesthetics, avoid densely packing it with information (or info will be lost) Type style = how typeface can be modified. 24 or higher for presentations, also depends on the venue. Reader should have a sense of where the report is going. Note: short reports are usually less than 10 pages long.