Chapter Eighteen - Understanding Design Principles

Knowing how to use design in your favor is a great tool to have. In this chapter of "The Bedford Reader" we learn how to use design and setup to make our paper more presentable. It discusses how to use design effectively and the design elements we can use. "The design decisions you make will play a critical role in how your readers understand, react to, and work with your document." (285) This is important because how your paper looks at first glance can be extremely beneficial to you or break the readers opinion of you. You want to know who your designing for and how that group will view your paper. There are many professional groups and casual groups and you want to fit in with and impress the people your are writing for. You can use all sorts of things to edit or design your paper. Some of these include fonts, color, boarders, and including illustrations in your work. This chapter was interesting because I didn't know there were so many options for witting a impressive professional paper.