Chapter 18

Chapter 18 is a chapter I found actually helpful to me. IT goes over the concept of understand design principles, a concept I had not heard of before reading this chapter.  Basically from what I could gather, a design principle is what you base the design of your paper on. The chapter starts of by going over the way to effectively use design. The chapter dose so by first explain how to understand design principles. To understand design principles you first need a balance in-between the exact measurements of your paper, this details how to use the different directional placement of different elements of your paper such as images. A good design will promote a easy reading and acceptance from the images, while a unbalanced design has the reader looking all over the paper. Next, to understand design principles you need to have a emphasis of the formation of your different items. These come in the form of headings and footings. This is so you can get your readers attention while they read your document. After this is placement which is pretty straight forward. Good placement follows along the lines of easy reading that is not hard on the reader, and bad placement causes sporadic eye searching and can take away from the paper. After this is repetition, with good repetition your reader will see where they are in your paper and at the same time will be able to better understand why you repeated certain items in your paper. Lastly, to understand design principles you need consistency. Consistency helps the reader’s better understand why you chose certain items to use throughout your paper. After this the chapter turns into a diagram of what good design principles look like, and how they can effectively be used.