Writing 2111F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Clip Art, Altered Images, Line Graph

• School: Western University
• Department: Writing
• Course: Writing 2111F/G
• Professor: Melanie Chambers

Document Summary

Chapter 4 designing documents, slides, and screens: a good document will look inviting, friendly, and easy to read. Pie charts: pie charts help the audience to measure area, should be a perfect circle, no more than 7 segments, label the segments outside the circle. Line graphs: label both horizontal and vertical axis, when time is a variable, put it on the horizontal axis, avoid using more than three different lines on one graph, avoid using perspective. Dot charts: dots show correlations or other large data sets, label both horizontal and vertical axis, keep the dots fairly small. Photographs: photographs convey a sense of authenticity, may need to crop the photo. Drawings: allows as much or as little detail, useful for showing structures underground, undersea, or in the atmosphere. Designing websites: must communicate, where users are, what the company does, what users can do on the site.