Apply Design Principles

After researching the benefits that volunteerism adds to an organization, you have realized that you need to begin researching the types of community service projects that might be a “good fit” for MoxieTogs.

Background and Overview

Read Chapter 5 in Writing that Works and review all of the Module 2 resources in preparation for completing this assignment in which you will use good design principles to revise an existing document. If design principles are new to you, you may find it helpful to complete the Module 2 Skill-Building Activity before beginning this assignment.

Estimated Time for Completion: 60 minutes

Target Course Objectives

• Utilize effective drafting, revising, and document design strategies to compose emails, letters, memos, reports, instructions, resumes, presentations, and proposals that meet standard English usage expectations.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the context, audience, and purpose of the assigned writing task through the use of appropriate content, voice, and tone.
• Demonstrate time-management skills by submitting assignments by the specified due dates.

Instructions

1. Download and analyze the Source Document for Applying Design Principles attached below in Assignment Resources. The text was pulled from a blog post that did not employ any of the design principles you have been studying in Module 2.
2. Revise the document content by applying good design principles you have learned.
3. As you revise the document, imagine that you are re-creating the blogpost content as a PDF to be attached to an email you will send to the other members of your team–your direct reports on the organizational chart. Be careful to preserve the “live links” in the document so that recipients can access the information.
4. You can be conservative or creative; you just have to employ at least three recognizable design principles or practices.
5. Finally, at the end of your document, list at least three design principles or practices that you used intentionally in the design of your document.
6. Use the Save As function to save the file as a .pdf,and name your file Your Last Name_New Design.