- Instructor
- Dana Anderson
- Course Description
- How does the design of a document – the material shaping of text on a page – contribute to its effectiveness in achieving its purposes? Likewise, how do poor design choices prevent documents from accomplishing their aims? How are design elements such as page layout, font, spacing, size, proximity, color, and contrast central to our visual literacy – our ability to interpret, understand, and make use of information based on how it is physically structured for our reading? These are the questions we’ll be exploring as we look at a range of different documents, especially (but not limiting ourselves to) those that we would call “professional writing” – reports, proposals, process and procedure descriptions, brochures, announcements, online documents such as web pages, and the like.
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