DOCUMENT ANALYSIS ACTIVITY

Analyzing a Page Design

This page is from a government report. The questions below ask you to think about page design (as discussed in “Designing Print Documents”).

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Question 7.1

1. How many levels of headings appear on this page? Are the different levels designed effectively so that they are easy to distinguish? If not, what changes would you make to the design?

Question 7.2

2. How are rules used on this page? Are they effective? Would you change any of them?

Question 7.3

3. Describe the design of the body text on this page, focusing on columns and alignment. Is the design of the body text effective? Would you change it in any way?

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