Constructing Tables and Graphics

1. Tables: Rows and columns of numbers and words 2. Graphs: Represent data using lines that creep up and down from left to right. Indicating changes in the data across time 3. Charts: Use bars, pie slices, or other inventive means to enable comparisons of data. The most common types are bar charts and pie charts 4. Photographs: Supply lots of details (in some cases, too much). They are useful for example when you want to show a model of 1 Ch7 a new product

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5. Drawings: Simplified illustrations of objects, people, and places, you see plenty of drawings used in instructions. They strip away extraneous (unrelated) detail and focus on the key objects and actions 6. Diagrams: Abstract illustrations of objects. They focus on infrastructure. Diagrams can also be used to illustrate nonphysical things such as concepts. An organizational chart of a company is a typical example. A flowchart of a production process is another.
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Converting text to table and two-column lists

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Converting text to table and two-column Importing or Copying spreadsheet data to create tables lists

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Converting paragraphs to tables

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Charts: Using bar or pie charts to compare data Graphs: Using data lines to show changes (x-y plots)

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Refers to photographs, drawings, diagrams and flowcharts, and schematics Sources (cite the source): Internet: download or copy and paste Hardcopy scan: scan the image and import it to your document (Not recommended) Graphic professionals: They can do the drawings for you You create your drawing using special software such as CorelDraw, AutoCAD, Visio, Adobe Photoshop, etc
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When incorporating graphics and tables into an engineering document, pay attention to their standard components, their placement, and cross references to them. The following lists summarizes guidelines stated in this chapter. Add figure and table titles Add labels: In illustrations, add words that identify the parts of the thing being illustrated, and a pointer from each label to the part being illustrated. In charts and graphs, add labels to the axes.
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Indicate sources of borrowed graphics or tables
Place graphics and tables at the point of first reference Align and position graphics carefully

Include a legend: if your graphs or charts use different symbols, colors, shadings, or patterns to indicate different elements, include a legend (Figures 7-7 and 7-8).
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Provide cross reference to your graphics and tables. Do not just pitch graphics and tables into engineering documents without referring to them and explaining key points, otherwise readers may have a nice picture or a pile of statistics, but no sense of purpose or meaning. Use phrasing like the following As can be seen in Figure 5 The arrangement of the network (Figure 8.2) Averages for the fabric cutting speeds are shown in Table 4 on the next page.
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