Thursday, July 21, 2016

DD5HW1 Style

When I edited my document for clarity I focused on the strategy question, does each sentence provide only as much information as readers are able to process easily? To ensure that the answer to this question was yes, I rephrased one of my important bullet points to make my sentence more clear. It now reads, "an image helps give the audience a reference when thinking about the information being presented." I also deleted a bullet point that did not quite make sense to a couple readers I questioned. For conciseness I changed a bullet point from "without path steps there is no Pezi" to "Path steps are a fundamental building block of Prezi." I changed the bullet point to conform to the strategy question, is the piece free of clutter words and needless qualifiers? To check for fluency I moved "path steps are a fundamental building block of Prezi" to first bullet of my how to add a path step instructions. The reason I changed this sentence was so that I could use the strategy question of, are related ideas subordinated or coordinated and combined appropriately, correctly. When looking at my word choice I learned that my wording was simple, familiar, unambiguous and now free of useless jargon. As for tone, it is appropriate and consistent for the situation and audience because my instructions are now clear, concise, fluent, and commanding.

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