Fact Sheet
Personal Fact Sheet
Seann Ringwall
Principals of Writing for Impact
- Write as you would talk.
- Keep sentences short.
- Shun jargon or “Designer Babble.”
- Be specific.
- Keep it simple.
- Use the active form.
- Don’t forget people.
- Know what you want to say.
- Gender Neutral Language.
- Use design techniques to help your readers, without compromising flow and development of ideas.
- Revise your writer-based prose; make it reader-based.
Five Factors
- Purpose
- Relationship to Audience
- Genre
- Style
- Social context
Memos
Bottom-line paragraph
All the memo info condensed, reader could stop reading after this
Block paragraphs
Single space
Bullet when appropriate
Subheadings for long memos
Citing Sources
First and foremost Seann, use in text citation like it’s hot.
INTEXT CITATION
INTEXT CITATION
INTEXT CITATION
INTEXT CITATION
INTEXT CITATION
APA
Article in Periodical
(Author, Year)
Book
(Author, Title, Year)
Book Section
(Author, Title, Year)
Film
(Director, Year)
Website
(Author, Name of Web Page, Year)
End of document Stuff
Author. (Year, Month Day). Name of Web Page. Retrieved Month Accessed Day Accessed, Year Accessed, from Name of Web Site: URL
Author. (Year, Month Day). Title. Periodical Title , p. Pages.
Author. (Year). Title. City: Publisher.
Author. (Year). Title. In B. Author, Book Title (p. Pages). City: Publisher.
Director (Director). (Year). Title [Motion Picture].
Relevant Websites
Creative Commons
Wikispaces
WordPress
Scribd
DeviantArt
Purdue OWL
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