Title: Assignment #4 Document design primer
Course: KVCC ENG219 > Section: Assignments

Read: OWL Purdue Online Writing Lab (Website: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/632/1) Article entitled: HATS: A Design Procedures for Routine Business Documents; and

Read:  Chapter #11 in Kolin’s Successful Writing at Work

ISBN-13: 978-1111834791

View YouTube video entitled: Document Design in Business Communication by Emil Towner published on Sept. 8, 2013

Discussion Forum Assignment: Defending design choices

This assignments' goal is to increase metacognition and meta-linguistic awareness with regard to document design related decisions. Prior to completing this assignment, you should have a draft of your fact sheet completed.  Go to the Discussion Forum Class Discussion Part #4 and respond to the following:

Please identify and explain the various document design decisions you have made in your fact sheet. Pay close attention to how your decisions affect user/reader experience. Be sure to reflect on your use of any of the following:

    - Contrast
    - Repetition
    - Alignment
    - Proximity
    - Hierarchy
    - Headings and subheadings
    - Access
    - Typography
    - Space
    - Margins
    - Imagery