Create a web page explaining how to create effective visuals and data displays. Offer principles to a specific audience. Your web page should also provide at least seven links to examples of good and poor visuals and data displays. (More is better.) At the top of your web page, offer an overview of what the page contains. At the bottom of the page, put the creation/update date and your name and e-mail address.

As your instructor directs,

a. Turn in one copy of your page(s). On another page, give the URLs for each link.

b. Electronically submit your web page files.

c. Write an e-mail to your instructor (1) identifying the audience for which the page is designed and explaining (2) the search strategies you used to find material on this topic, (3) why you chose the pages and information you’ve included, and (4) why you chose the layout and graphics you’ve used.

d. Present your page orally to the class.

Hints:

■ Searching for words (graphs, maps, Gantt charts, data) will turn up only pages with those words.

Check pages on topics that may use data displays to explain information: finance, companies’ performance, sports, labor statistics, cost of living, exports, and so forth.

■ In addition to finding good and bad visuals and data displays on the web, you can also scan in examples you find in newspapers, magazines, and textbooks.

■ If you have more than nine links, chunk them in small groups under headings.