[Year 12 IPM] Formats & Conventions

[Mark Kelly]

As I interpret it...

Mandatory: required by law or rules, e.g. "Tax invoice" and a date on 
receipts; driving on left hand side of the road; a company requires all 
employees to put the corporate letterhead on all printed correspondence.

Preferred: no punishment for disobedience, but it's STRONGLY advised 
e.g. using Post Office preferred envelope addressing format; spelling 
accurately; pages are numbered in large documents.

Optional: there is a choice, but people tend to prefer one way as 
opposed to others e.g. most folk expect and prefer web links to be 
underlined; page numbers appear in the footer rather than the header.

The dividing lines between preferred and optional conventions are blurry.

Feel free to argue, anyone.

The old VBOS conventions are cached at...
http://www.mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au/la/it/ipmnotes/conventions/conventions.htm

Love

Marky

Stewart, Andrew wrote:
> Thanks Mark,
> 
> Are there a set of guidelines for optional and preferred conventions?
> 
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> Cheers
>  
> Andrew
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>  
> Andrew Stewart
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> From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au]
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> Subject: Re: [Year 12 IPM] Formats & Conventions
> 
> This keeps coming up...
> 
> 1. Formats and conventions are not the same thing
> 2. Formats describe how information is structured or arranged e.g. as a 
> table, a graph, a web page, an annual report.
> 3. Once a format has been chosen, there are conventions that are (a) 
> mandatory (b) preferred or (c) optional for that convention.
> 
> e.g. once you choose to the format of a table to present data, the 
> conventions are to have bold headings, right-aligned numbers in columns
> etc.
> 
> If you'd chosen the format of a bar graph, you'd need to follow the 
> conventions of labelling axes, using different colour or fill pattern 
> for the different bars etc.
> 
> Does that help?
> 
> Ooroo.
> 
> Mark
> 
> Stewart, Andrew wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Can someone please describe an easy way to explain to my students the 
>> difference between preferred and optional formats or conventions?
>>
>>  
>>
>> My students have struggled with Q 4 of the 2004 VCAA paper.
>>
>>  
>>
>>  
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>>  
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>>  
>>
>>  
>>
>> Andrew Stewart
>>
>> Head of Information & Communication Technologies
>>
>> Ballarat & Clarendon College
>>
>> 1425 Sturt St
>>
>> Ballarat Vic 3350
>>
>> Ph:    63 3 53308200
>>
>> Fax:   63 3 53323553
>>
>> Mob: 0419516701
>>
>> www.clarendon.vic.edu.au <http://www.clarendon.vic.edu.au/>
>>
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>>
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