Exam 6: Designing Illustrations

You have been asked to design the illustrations for the new customer manual that will be included with a new waffle iron your company will be soon be marketing. The manual includes assembly instructions, safety warnings, cleaning and care instructions, and the warranty. You will work with an in-house artist who will draw all the actual illustrations based on your instructions. When designing the illustrations, you should keep ALL BUT ONE of the following in mind:

If you are new on the job and want to understand who your colleague is and who to contact for information about a certain subject, what type of illustration could you ask to see?

Identify the purpose of tables and figures in a report or document.

When using a photograph, it's best to…

If you were going to identify the various students in your classroom by ethnicity, which graph or chart would you use? Why? Create a quick sketch of that graph or chart.

Which type of figure has an x and y axis?

Which is a way you could potentially create an unethical illustration?

You work for a healthcare organization and are tasked with writing a brief report on the benefits of washing one's hands to help fight the spread of the flu virus. This is going to be used as a quick informational document for physicians to help remind them to talk to their patients about washing their hands. You are told you need to have this document done in one hour and it can only be one page long because it is going to be printed in-house and mailed to clinics. Explain why using illustrations is or is not appropriate in this scenario. Be sure to include support for your argument based on the guidelines to creating effective illustrations in Chapter 6.

Your textbook lists guidelines to consider when using an illustration. Identify and select three of these guidelines and explain why you think these are most important for clarity and reader understanding. Explain how each works in the text and your reasons for including this item. Note, you should not simply list and explain items. You should make a clear argument for why each of your three choices is important to clarity and reader understanding.

If you are new on the job and want to understand who your colleague is and who to contact for information about a certain subject, what type of illustration could you ask to see?

Your boss provides you the table below, which displays the hours worked for each employee based on different type of work: assigned hours, overtime hours, and compensation hours (vacation time). Your boss is going to use the illustration in a presentation to the staff. In this essay, describe the design of a usability test, whereby you test the illustration for its effectiveness and usability. In your essay, be sure to explain the type of representative test user you would recruit and the questions you would ask your subjects. Alt text - An example of a table which displays the hours worked for each employee based on different type of work: assigned hours, overtime hours, and compensation hours (vacation time).

You would us a column graph to…

Why is the below pie chart unethical?

What is one guideline you should follow to create effective illustrations?

You are tasked to create an illustration for children on the benefits of washing their hands; what type of illustration would be the best to create for this rhetorical situation?

What are two questions you can ask yourself in order to determine if illustrations are a necessary component of your technical communication?

Identify a benefit and possible problem with using color in illustrations.

What is the purpose of a column chart?

When you segment a circle graph, you should…

You are creating an illustration to visually display a large amount of statistical data you need your readers to be able to refer to quickly. What is the best type of illustration to create for this objective?