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Using Graphs And Charts With Color And Good Title Makes Audience Easy

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Summary of the Article
The authors think using appropriate graphs or charts with color and good title makes audience easy to understand the contents. First, choosing correct graphs and charts. Each graph and chart has a different function. For example, Pie chart shows the percentage of a whole. Understanding the function of graphs and charts is important to tell messages. Second, using color. They think the foregrounding color for texts must opposite color to the background color, because audience can read and understand the main points easily. Third, deciding preferable title. Title should be simple and help the audience to get to the point of graph and chart. The authors say using graphs and charts is also useful in a document. However, people should put them with introduction to make readers understand what they mean, and put them near the arguments to emphasize the point. People shouldn’t use many of graphs and charts because they give audience less impression (Lynch and Golen, 2002).
Evaluating Web Source
I think the article is not a research study, because the authors don’t show any data, so I use a way of Evaluating Web Sources. Newman (2013) describes five categories: Authority, Accuracy and Reliability, Purpose/Objectivity, Coverage, and Currency (P292).
Authority
The article is very authoritative. One author, David Lynch, is a professor of supply chain management at Arizona State University at Tempe. Another author is Steven Golen, is an associate professor of

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