[Year 12 IPM] formats & conventions

[Mark Kelly]

Hi Margaret

I tell my kids that formats are totally different to conventions.

Formats define how information is structured and laid out (e.g. in a 
graph, a table, as text, as a web page, as an icon).

Most conventions indicate how information is formatted or presented 
(e.g. bold headings, right-justified columns of numbers, using page 
numbering, underlined web links, how envelopes are addressed).
Other conventions dictate what content appears, such as the Tax Office's 
mandatory conventions on what has to appear for a piece of paper to pass 
as a legitimate tax invoice.

So, a table is a FORMAT for presenting statistics.  Right-aligning the 
columns of numbers in the table, using bold row/column headings and 
providing row/column totals would be CONVENTIONS.


Fusinato, Margaret M wrote:
> I still have students who seem to mix up formats and conventions. Has 
> anyone created a list that clearly lists examples of formats separate to 
> examples of conventions? The document I have lists formats and 
> conventions for various publications under the joint heading without 
> separating the two.
>  
> Margaret Fusinato
> Trafalgar High School
> 


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