Creating Effective Documents

There are many tips that can be used when designing academic documents. These tips can be used to spice up the information and to grab the readers’ attention. One tip that can be used is italicizing words to stress key points in the document. One can also insert tables into the document. The tables can show a variety of information in a different way. This will give the reader a different view of the information.

Using proper headers and footers is vital to writing an effective document and is more important to the message of an academic paper. For instance, if somebody was doing research and had papers spread all over the desk, the easiest way to locate the information is to look at the header. It can also be used as a refresher to remember what someone is writing about when brainstorming for a document. Most of all, it just keeps things in a professional, proper, and in an organized way.

Certain things appear less important when conveying the message of a business document. Using the multi column design is not so appealing and doesn’t strike my attention that much. Having one column compared to having three or four, does not change how the information is perceived. This may be a good technique to fill up a blank page, but it really doesn’t make a difference to me either way. In a way, I think that it just kind of clutters everything.