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This website provides information on Chapter 9 regarding fair use. It states the public is free to portions of material that is copyrighted for certain purposes. It also gives information for Chapter 7 for educational fair use guidelines.

D#2, HW#2 I thought that this was the best website that demonstrated Chapter 2 in my opinion. The website talks about the same kind of elements as in the chapter including size, color, weight, and style. I also enjoyed it because the writer explained, like the book, the reason for each of these techniques and why they help the reader get the information that is being shown to them.

Study questions on Daniel Pink's book, "A Whole New Mind," which has a chapter on design. Other chapters in the book also have tips on good design. I really love Dan Pink's design viewpoint, which is that we can find or create good design in everything.

http://diigo.com/0cdab Supplement for Chapter 1

This was my favorite bookmarked relating to Chapter 1. It is quite comprehensive and touches on a lot of what was covered in the chapter. I find this very usefeul.

This is actually appears to be an online textbook for a technical writing course. I found that the introduction and many of the examples/models were great tools in helping to understand chapter 1. Also, I think the page in itself is a great example of technical writing.

I found chapter 3 of this document useful. It gives you common elements of good writing, do's and don'ts of writing styles and usage. All of the chapters are relevant for this project and provide a checklist at the end of each.

This is a chapter out of a book with same types of information that we are reading about. What I really like about this article are the many examples that it has added all the way through. I think it really helps you to understand what they mean when they are talking about certain ways of writing.

This also looks like a chapter out of a book but a very good chapter with descriptions and actual examples all the way through.

I felt this article paraphrased almost everything covered in chapter 1. D#1HW13

This answers a lot of revising questions and doubts.

I liked learning about the difference between revising and editing in chapter 10. This article gives more helpful info on revising.

Textbook chapter on transnational communication.

a quick look at some of the points talked about in chapter 10

This is a comprehensive list of email etiquette, including many things I had not heard before or read in chapter 12...such as, ""Do not copy a message or attachment without permission" and "use active instead of passive" voice.

This article is coming from a business's perspective about why it is important to have employees follow good email etiquette. We had read about important reasons like professionalism and efficiency, but not so much about a company's liability for its employee's emails.

An article describing how to write effective e-mails in the workplace.

This page is more of a resource than an example of aligntment. The examples that Kayla(the author) shows looks like good examples however the resolution they were posted in makes it blurry and hard to judge. Kayla however breaks down in a few brief paragraphs how effective and important alignment is within an article, or project. One aspect that she hits on that makes a lot of sense to me is the images in alignment and how they can also be placed into alignment even though it is a photo. There is a lot more that goes into alignment that first expected. 

This site gives some interesting views on alignment and some examples that I'm not sure I like. In saying that though I really do like some of the notes for instance, that there are many points to align to on a layout. It also is much nicer to use color contrast and other features along with the alignment.

This website is very helpful when it comes to explaining alignment.  Even if you have other good elements going around your picture/website, it might look cluttered and there can be a bad use of alignment.  This website gives you examples of how to use proper alignment in pictures and on a layout by using the lines, shapes, and contrasting colors.  

I really like this one because its more detailed. There is a table of contents that explains a variety of details that go into making a design. For example, chapter 1 is doing the research, ch.3 is Headlines and Slogans. This is really helpful for someone who has no idea where to begin.

D#1, HW#13-3websites This website highlights some key points also included in chapter 1, in giving advice for movie posters. This is so interesting to me because I am very interested in production design and its great to see design aspects correlate to movies as well. I love to study the conversion point between design and movies.

D#1, HW#13-3websites. Shopping Bag designs are included in the list of layout design formats as per Chapter 1. I came across this website and thought so many of the designs were so playful and attention grabbing. Great for marketing!

This article relates to Chapter 1 of "Basic of Design". It reinforces the 6 steps for a design and gives an in depth example for every step. It helps you analyze and create a purpose; provides you with brainstorming rules to successfully jot down your ideas without judgement; it helps you go through a selection process which relates to thumbnail sketches and comp, etc. 

This website focuses more on building a design for a successful website, but it's another example of using the same strategic steps in chapter one of "Basic of Design". I especially am drawn to the second step of this website "Identify your audience". Nowadays new technology being introduced to a variety of generations can be somewhat tricky. The fact that they mentioned "technical competency" as a consideration, gives a better understanding of who you will be dealing with and what levels of technology to consider.