13.9: Activities for Further Reflection

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Choose an assignment that you’ve created in this class or another class that doesn’t currently have a chart or graph. Find some data that could benefit from being a chart or graph. Create a chart or graph that illustrates the data, making sure to choose the correct relationship. For example, you might find a sentence in an essay you wrote that says that 10% of Millenials don’t own a smart phone. You could show this visually using a pie chart.
Find an infographic online. Then, evaluate it according to what you’ve just learned. Write a short paragraph that answers the following questions: How does it present data? Is it easy to understand? Is it ethical? Can you understand where the data came from?
Find a poster in your campus or workplace, or out in the community. Take a photo of it, then evaluate it according to Gestalt Theory. Can you identify all of the principles?
Choose a website that you like to visit, then use what you learned about accessibility to evaluate how accessible the website’s visuals are. Write a short email (you don’t have to send it) to the website’s owner suggesting three changes they could make to improve the accessibility of their visuals.

Contributors and Attributions

This chapter contains material taken from Introduction to Professional Communications is (c) 2018 by Melissa Ashman and is licensed under a Creative Commons-Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.

This chapter also contains material taken from Graphic Design and Print Production Fundamentals by Ken Jeffrey, which is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License,

This chapter also contains material taken from Technical Writing Essentials by Suzan Last, which is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License,

This chapter also contains material taken from Do’s and Don’ts Of Designing For Accessibility by Karwai Pun, which is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License