Spacing, Who Needs It?

This week was all about written messages, specifically how to write and design your page so that it is appealing so that it has a higher chance of being read. One thing that stuck out to me was that everything that you do to the page visually including the use of white space will make writing either more or less inviting to reading depending on how well the page is designed so this is what I will write about today.

As stated about what is referred to as white space in a document many times is seen as lazy because whoever wrote the piece didn't want to fill up the page. This mindset is not a correct one. As we spoke in class white space should be used strategically so as to help the reader read the message. Contrarily if too many words are used in a given space the page gets really hard to read and can make even the most patient reader not want to read what is written, this is called grey space.

The reason that I bring these two points up is because I feel it is the most overlooked part of writing, many times people want to just write and not worry about what it looks like, I do this to. This tendency has been created because many of us up to this point have written because it has been an assignment and really no matter what our writing would be read. The reality is that this tendency needs to be changed because we are all getting to a time that our writing will now be overlooked if it is not structured well or if it is hard to read.

To fix this in my writing I will focus on the elements of spacing that are in my writing, especially the use of white space or the presence of grey space. Doing this will help me not just think about what I am writing as I have done in the past but also think about how the reader will perceive my writing and whether they will want to read it or not.