1. Find, with your partner, a short report online and print it out. Looking at it with your partner, document its style: use of fonts, color, lines, position of logos, use of headers, footers, borders, and so forth. Next, discuss whether the style is effective or not. If it could be improved, how would that be done?
Submit a summary to your instructor that describes the elements of style used in the report, if they are effective and how they may be improved.
2. Write instructions for a 1- to 2-page handout that explains how to create a table in Microsoft Word (whatever version you have) and how to add and delete columns and rows from an existing table.
Include the following in your instructional handout:
1. Summary of the program and version of the program you are using
2. Design that reveals to the reader how your information is organized
3. Effective use of blank space
4. Organized and consistent design of active space
5. Illustrations taken from screenshots or a snipping tool that are appropriately cited (Check the Microsoft® website for the wording that must accompany the use of its software images.)
6. Titled and numbered illustrations that are referred to in the instructions
Continue to develop the characteristics of good writing, and proofread your document for common errors using Appendix A as a guide.