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Genres: General Categories of Documents

Recap: Key Items Examples:

Design: Let your design serve your genre

Elements of design
- fonts
- colors
- page layout
- illustratsion
- tables
- headlines
- footnote
Genre and Design are related
- By looking at a piece of writing visually, you might have guessed its genre?
Design principles for research essay (or in general academic writing)
- Double spaced
- 11 or 12 pt font
- No fancy fonts please
- Incorporate figures and tables as much as possible
Meaning of stylization
- Boldfaced: headings, acronyms
- Italized: emphasis
- Underlined: never
- capitalized: never