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Chapter 6

Interpreting your research is very important.  It is simple and easily overlooked.  By your lack of interpretation while obtaining you will only cause yourself much more work in the end and may get lost in  a tangle of who, what, where, and why.  Remember, this is to be useful and persuade your readers, not YOU.

The most important lesson I took from both chapters 6 and 7 was about copyright.  This can be a very dangerous position to be in if you are victim of it.  It occurs all over the place.  Many of us do this every day without even knowing it within our own emails and social networking.  

Until recently I worked for a blueprint company and this was an issue that came up every single day of my employment.  There were times I had to tell people that we simply could not make copies for them and they would either be confused because or angry.  This was a good judgement of character.  

A confused person probably purchased the plans from a developer and was required by the city to make 'X' amount of copies for permit approval.  The angry customers were coincidentally of a given culture/country/region that I will not mention, and would obviously attempt to steal plans that did not belong to them.  They would attain these from contractors and mass produce these, change the title blocks and call them their own.  THIS IS ILLEGAL!!!

Be careful in the workplace and just like your school research papers, make sure you cite everything since they consider work material much more difficult to declare 'FAIR.'

Chapter 7

This portion of the book was a good recourse for developing your thoughts on paper.  It reminds you to give yourself time to re-read, proof, re-write, organize your paper and know who your audience is.

Connecting everything in a paper is one of the more difficult things to do in writing that even over time, still poses problems for the greatest writers.  Again, one of the main guidelines is to consider your readers' cultural background.  Apart from pissing people off and getting yourself into trouble with copyright, crossing cultures and insulting someone is not a good thing to do in the workplace either.

While organizing give your readers something to look forward to with your forecasting statement, or what lies ahead...but as the books says, just do this one level at a time.  One of the most fun things if you are knowledgeable in design is presenting visual headings.  These can really attract the reader and really offset what could have been a boring presentation.