[Year 12 IPM] Formats & Conventions

[Mark Kelly]

This keeps coming up...

1. Formats and conventions are not the same thing
2. Formats describe how information is structured or arranged e.g. as a 
table, a graph, a web page, an annual report.
3. Once a format has been chosen, there are conventions that are (a) 
mandatory (b) preferred or (c) optional for that convention.

e.g. once you choose to the format of a table to present data, the 
conventions are to have bold headings, right-aligned numbers in columns etc.

If you'd chosen the format of a bar graph, you'd need to follow the 
conventions of labelling axes, using different colour or fill pattern 
for the different bars etc.

Does that help?

Ooroo.

Mark

Stewart, Andrew wrote:
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> Can someone please describe an easy way to explain to my students the 
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> My students have struggled with Q 4 of the 2004 VCAA paper.
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