I workshopped the Pop Tab Collection with the class on Tuesday and the class gave me some great suggestions on how to improve the document. I really appreciate the constructive criticism. Many of my classmates suggested changing the section of the flier explaining about how to donate the pop tabs and the purpose of collecting the tabs.
I plan on reconstructing the paragraph so that it explains the purpose of the pop tab collection. Then, after the paragraph I'm going to make a bullet list that explains how to donate the tabs.
Right now, I'm about halfway done with the Volunteer Handbook. I still have some comprehensive editing to do on the original document. I'm still trying to figure out where the images would best fit in the handbook.
On Friday, I took a lot of pictures of the different facilities in the House that are included in the handbook. I want to add pictures because I feel that there is a lot of text and white space.
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I, unfortunately, didn't get to see the document you're talking about. But I still want to say something. Often, when a document is just a bunch of text, the first thing a person thinks to do is to insert pictures, whether really relevant or not so much so. Sometimes, the best thing to do, however, is to trim the text and make it more concise. A picture, if really relevant, of course makes sense. But don't lose all that white space. It is just as important as text or pictures, because it draws the eye where you want the eye drawn, keeps the reader going, or makes the reader think twice about reading the entire thing (if it looks too busy). That is my caution, though it may be completely irrelevant as, again, I didn't get a chance to see the document to which you refer.
ReplyDeleteBerkeley makes an important point here. I take him to be saying that you want to carefully consider your audience and your purpose for a particular document as you make important design and formatting decisions. (And when you think about the audience and the purpose of a document, you want to consider both your purpose -- that is, what you want to achieve with the text -- and your readers' purpose -- that is, what do they want to learn/be able to do as they read a document. If pictures seem to be important for helping you to achieve these purposes, then absolutely do so? But if they don't seem to be absolutely necessary for achieving these purposes, then move on to consider other design decisions you could make that more directly address the audience's needs and purposes.
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