Module 2b —
Report Writing
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Explanation and reinforcement
While visual presentations allow you to emphasize important points that might otherwise not be obvious in a written account, what you choose to include in your text will also serve to make your points more clearly understood. For this reason, what you write in the text that accompanies a visual element is important.
In the case of photographs and images, your purpose may simply be to convey an impression. Your written work will necessarily need to bring this out clearly in the text but a photo strategically placed can provide just the right amount of enhancement to make your text compelling.
Making the graphic and the text work together
Text introduces the graphic and explains its significance, cross-referencing appropriately (e.g. Figure 1: Title of figure) and referring to the label (Figure 1, or Fig. 1). Notice how in this example, the text reinforces the idea of variation of unemployment trends.
For the world as a whole latest ILO estimates show that open unemployment has increased over the last decade to about 188 million in 2003. However, employment performance over the past two decades has varied across regions (Figure 13). It is also noticeable that within the developing world unemployment rates have increased since 1990 in Latin America and the Caribbean and South-East Asia, and since 1995 in East Asia. |
A Fair Globalization: Creating Opportunities for All. World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization. Page 40.