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ChallengesImprove these titles. (a) For an overview of a set of procedures on how to create a form letter, tying a database into a word processing document: Mail Merge (b) From the menu of a Web store, offering a FAQ using the site: ScenicSite General User Information (c) From a report on successful use of micro machines to monitor and control the transmission of a vehicle on slippery surfaces, particularly wet or ice roadways, but also including excessive gravel or sand, and oil slicks: Sandia Corporate Partnership—Little Machines (d) A 100-page web site in which the opening section’s title is An Integrated Planning Process to Support DOE Missions by Anticipating Customer Needs and New Opportunities in a Competitive Economy. (e) An inspirational message to sales people for the chain of spas called Fit for a New Future, based on the life of Arnold Schwarzenegger, focusing on his individualism, visualization techniques, hard work, and willingness to take risks. Current title: Poster Publishing Company: Business and Management Books: New Challenges (f) A procedure for modifying the prices of items delivered directly to the user’s supermarket, such as flowers and bread. Current title: Food Services: Pricing Group: Methods for Modifying Prices on Direct Delivery Items. (g) In a troubleshooting section, a page that provides an analysis of the probable causes of the problem (one checkout stand is down, in a supermarket checkout), and suggestions for solutions (checking the power, and so on). Current title: Checkout. (h) First sentence: The Emerging Threats program develops high-impact responses to national security challenges. Current title: Sandia National Laboratories | Programs | Emerging Threats Answers=>
Reflecting on Scannability
Mr.
Swinburne is famed or infamed for having used a great many words which
express nothing but "color" or "splendor." It has been said that he used
the same adjectives to describe a woman and a sunset. |
Answers
(a) About Form Letters
(b) FAQ (c) Micro Machines Keep Cars From Slipping: Sandia Corporate
Partnership (d) Anticipating Customer Needs in a Competitive Economy
(e) Arnold Schwarzenegger Inspires Fit for a New Future
(f) Modifying Prices on Direct Delivery Items (Food Services)
(g) Checkout Stand Down: Analysis and Solution
(h) Emerging Threats: Sandia National Laboratories Program
Other ways to make text scannable
2b. Insert
meaningful
2c. Highlight
keywords and
2d. Turn any list
into a Resources on scannability Taking a Position on Scannability |
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