Here's your instruction: Do select four graphics from online newspapers or magazines.

Look in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Bloomberg Businessweek, U.S. News & World Report, Fortune, Forbes, or other business news publications.

Here's your task: Then you add the title and the source of each graphic. In an e-mail or memo to classmates, and critique each graphic based on what you have learned about emails. The layout design is more than just design it is visual communication. Newspaper, magazine, book, and other paper media layout designers not only must make the layout visually appealing to the eye, but also tell and show the importance of the story, the text, and the message through their designs.

Question: Do you think the graphic could have been expressed more effectively in the text?

Question: How effective are the labels and headings used in this graphic?

Question: Did color add clarity?

Question: Next if used, describe the placement and effectiveness of a legend. And is the appropriate graphic form used?

Question: Lastly, what is your overall impression of the effectiveness of the graphic?

Include at least two citations.