Page design

We made it through another week.  I can’t believe we are entering the second week of October. Thanksgiving (family vacation in a tropical place) and Christmas will be here before we know it.  This week I will be watching Singin In the Rain for drama class.  I’m happy to have a musical this week – I haven’t seen a good, classic musical in a while.  I struggled this week with economics – never could find the formula or figure out how to calculate the growth rate of per capita real GDP.  Even though we are moving to the next module, I will be asking the investment guys I work with if they can provide some guidance. 

Last week in Technical Writing, we focused on design and layout of writing.  We had to take a document that was not well designed and redesign it.  I found it easy to make changes and make the document my own design.  One of the major changes I made was to adjust spacing and alignment of text, and to me it was surprising how much a change it made to tab something over and delete extra space.  With my career, most of my writing is a professional letter to my clients or excel spreadsheets.  Although I will not be using all the aspects of design and layout in these types of documents, like font styles, colors, images, etc., I still want to make sure that the information is laid out well, formulas are accurate and understandable.  I can say the design is important for documents like brochures, fliers, pamphlets, etc. that are displayed in a public area for people to choose.  You want to grab the attention of the audience, make them pick your brochure over all the others and that is done with design – colors, pictures, different font styles and sizes.  Just like the other steps of the writing process, you should take a few minutes to design, and if necessary redesign, your documents.

I am off to start working on the first major project for Drama class which is a movie critique essay due next week.  For Technical Writing we will be working on Peer Reviews and starting the next module of economics.  Throw in normal work and family stuff and as always, there is too much to do.