Module 01 Activity

Scenario

You have inherited a set of charts someone else built, and been asked whether they are any good.

What you build

A critique of five real charts, with the question each answers and a rewritten takeaway sentence for each.

Steps

1. For each chart, write the single question it answers. Mark any that answer none, and any where a sentence would have done.
2. Write the action each chart prompts. Mark any that prompt none, and decide whether that is legitimate context or a defect.
3. List every decorative feature and say what the reader can do afterwards that they could not before. Delete anything that fails.
4. Show one chart to three colleagues and ask them the questions it should answer. Record the answers, not their opinions.
5. Rewrite each title as a takeaway sentence containing a figure.
6. Say which of the five you would delete outright, and why.

Evidence to hand in

• The five charts with the question each answers.
• The prompted action for each, with context charts labelled.
• The decoration audit with deletions.
• Three readers' answers to one chart's questions.
• Five rewritten titles.
• The deletion recommendation.

Review checklist

• Every chart has a question written above it, or is marked as answering none.
• The reader test records answers, not opinions.
• At least one decorative feature is identified and removed.
• Every rewritten title contains a figure and makes a claim.
• The recommendation includes at least one deletion, or argues why none is warranted.

Mark complete