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Lesson 2:   Laying out text - part 1   |   part 2

 

The bottom text is properly punctuated and laid out. Try to make the top text look exactly like it. You can do this by putting the number of the punctuation and formatting instructions in the blue box into the boxes in the text. When you have finished, the text will be laid out as you have instructed! (You can use each instruction as often as you want!)

1. comma     2. full stop     3. apostrophe     4. center new line bullet point     5. full stop capital letter     6. exclamation mark capital letter     7. full stop space one line new paragraph indent justify left capitalize first letter     8. colon then space two lines then justify centre insert a bullet point     9. serif bold underlined with a question mark     10. space two lines new paragraph indent justify left capitalize first letter     11. space two lines new paragraph justify left capitalize first letter

 

Why is text layout important if text is wrongly laid out the effect can look a bit strange and it also makes your work look unprofessional even something simple like the text being lined up on the right seems wrong to us fortunately there are several easy things we can do to make our text look more organized dont use too much punctuation make your text as clear as possiblethink about what the person reading it will see writing good clear text is not difficult it is important though because clear writing shows clear thinking and that will impress your readers


Why is text layout important?

        If text is wrongly laid out the effect can look a bit strange, and it also makes your work look unprofessional. Even something simple like the text being lined up on the right seems wrong to us.


        Fortunately, there are several easy things we can do to make our text look more organized:

Writing good, clear text is not difficult! It is important though, because clear writing shows clear thinking and will impress your readers.