Creating Visuals Post
In a progress memo or data review, posting length paragraphs detailing the results collected does not make for an easily readable article for a professional environment. Integrating and creating visuals allows for technical writers to convey large amounts of important and pertinent statistical data or data relevant to a report or study within the corporate environment. Oliu et al express as much, relaying the same rules as it pertains to the other important concepts within technical and professional writing: know your purpose and know your reader. When applied to creating relevant visuals, the options drastically expand to include non-numeric visual representations of data (i.e., photographs, drawings, maps/geographical charts, symbols, flow charts) as well as strictly graphical and statistical representations as well. One must make sure to clarify why the visual is being used, that it is uncluttered and focused, that the information is accurate, and that it has an ...