Lesson 8 - Formats and conventions

Question 1

What does a format mean?

Answer 1

Ways of presenting information such as: graphs, web page, bolded texts, posters

Question 2

What is a convention?

Answer 2

The usual or expected way of doing something. Each format has it’s own convention.

Question 3

What are the tabular format’s conventions?

Answer 3

Bold headings, total at the bottom, main table heading

Question 4

List some graph conventions

Answer 4

Descriptive heading, labelled axis, 0 at the bottom, coloured portions of each bar

Question 5

Can a format be a convention?

Answer 5

Yes

Question 6

Why use conventions?

Answer 6

• Because everyone wants and expects you to.
• Makes it far quicker and easier to absorb information.
• Audiences don’t have to learn a completely different
  method of representing information.

Question 7

What are the heading conventions?

Answer 7

Use 3 tier headings, headings all left alligned, headings consistently alligned.

Question 8

What is included in the 3 tier headings?

Answer 8

Organisation name (largest font) , System name (smaller font), Content(includes the name of the item being presented in the graph or table