What is a good document?
A good document is measured through the clarity of the document and whether the audience understands the document or otherwise. In the presentation prepared by my group titled "Learning for doing: Interpreting static texts via rhetorical analysis" by Todd Oakley, certain adjustments are needed with guidence from the readings given.
According to Anderson (Putnis & Petelin 1996), a good document design creates a clear-cut informative content to the audience which shows the effectiveness of the document achieved. In other words, an effective document should not be "swarmed" by irrelavant points or designs. If so, viewers will face a hard time deciding on which to emphasize more rather than having a positive perception towards the documents. For instance, if a docment is clustered with too many word or image, the viewers will have no interest in the document because the viewer may lose concentration or focus of the main point of the document.
Reep (2006) pointed out that there are four types of format elements which should be consider : white space, colour typographic and also cues. Therefore, elements in a document such as headings, boldface, and others must be consider where it could assist the audience to outline the document easily. White spaces create a more comfortable scene where viewers will not feel as clustered with other colors. Thus, viewers can easily focus on the points following the sequence and concentrate on the points.
References
Putnis & Petelin, 1996, Professional Communication, Principles and Applications, Writing for Communicate, Prentice Hall, Sydney.
Kress, G & van Leeuwen, 2006, The Semiotic Landscape in Reading Images, Routledge, New York.
Reep, Diana C., 2006, Technical writing :Document design, Ch. 6.
Kim Sydow Campbell, Coherence Continuity and Cohesion, accessed on 10 September 2009, http://bit.ly/1Ixmdf.
A good document is measured through the clarity of the document and whether the audience understands the document or otherwise. In the presentation prepared by my group titled "Learning for doing: Interpreting static texts via rhetorical analysis" by Todd Oakley, certain adjustments are needed with guidence from the readings given.
According to Anderson (Putnis & Petelin 1996), a good document design creates a clear-cut informative content to the audience which shows the effectiveness of the document achieved. In other words, an effective document should not be "swarmed" by irrelavant points or designs. If so, viewers will face a hard time deciding on which to emphasize more rather than having a positive perception towards the documents. For instance, if a docment is clustered with too many word or image, the viewers will have no interest in the document because the viewer may lose concentration or focus of the main point of the document.
Reep (2006) pointed out that there are four types of format elements which should be consider : white space, colour typographic and also cues. Therefore, elements in a document such as headings, boldface, and others must be consider where it could assist the audience to outline the document easily. White spaces create a more comfortable scene where viewers will not feel as clustered with other colors. Thus, viewers can easily focus on the points following the sequence and concentrate on the points.
References
Putnis & Petelin, 1996, Professional Communication, Principles and Applications, Writing for Communicate, Prentice Hall, Sydney.
Kress, G & van Leeuwen, 2006, The Semiotic Landscape in Reading Images, Routledge, New York.
Reep, Diana C., 2006, Technical writing :Document design, Ch. 6.
Kim Sydow Campbell, Coherence Continuity and Cohesion, accessed on 10 September 2009, http://bit.ly/1Ixmdf.
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