This is a Technical Document Analysis. This two-page publication was produced by

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This is a Technical Document Analysis. This two-page publication was produced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The following questions ask you to think about the various factors that contributed to the content and design of this document.

1. Who is the audience for this document? Where do you think the authors intended for the document to be displayed?

2. With which of the two general purposes does this document more closely align? Does it help others to learn about a subject, carry out a task, or make a decision, or does it reinforce or change attitudes and motivate readers to take action? If the document appears to have some combination of these purposes, which seems to be the most important? How can you tell?

3. What problem is the document addressing? Does the document provide clear solutions?

4. Has the document been designed to facilitate usability? How does it use words and images to communicate information? Does it create a positive impression? Is it easy to navigate and understand? Does it address readers with various physical abilities?

5. Is the document concise? How well does it communicate a lot of information in an economical manner? Can busy readers scan it and grasp the main point?

6. Does the document appear professional? ?Why or why not?

PHYSICAL ACTIVITY BUILDSA HEALTHY AND STRONG AMERICA THE PROBLEM About 1 in 2 adults live with a chronic disease. About half of this group have two or more. Only half of adults get the physical activity they need to help reduce and prevent chronic diseases 1/2 IN NOT GETTING ENOUGH PHYSICAL ACTIVITY COSTS MONEY $117 Think about how much an active nation could save us over the next decade 10 YEARS BILLION $117 billion in annual health care costs are associated with inadequate physical activity. 5 (2 IMPACT ON MILITARY READINESS Long-term military readiness is at risk unless a large-scale change in physical activity and nutrition takes place in America. Mission: Readiness Military Leaders for Kids NEARLY LINEYOUNG ADULTS are too heavy to serve in our military. Markel/Seiber, Technical Communication, 12e, © 2018 Bedford/St. Martin's Information from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2016: www.cdc.gov/physicalactivity/downloads,/ healthystrong-america.pdf

Explanation / Answer

1) The audience for this document is the genearl public, this document touts the various advantages of physical activity. The doucument could most likely be dispalyed in schools, libraries and other government funded public centres.

2) The document  tries to reinforce or change attitudes and motivate readers to take action. By telling them the various benefits of physical activity and also the risk of having no activity it motivates the readers into making a change and taking action

3) The document is addressing the widespread problem and effects of physical inactivity. No it does not have clear solutions

4) the document is well designed to facilitate usability, it has been designed effciently and concisely to state its premise, present facts to support its premise and bring people to a conclusion using efficent usage of words and pictures. Although it does not address people with different physical abilities.

5) the document is extremely conscise and ordered having a minimum wastage of space and typing and well made enough for the busy reader to garsp the subject matter immediately.

6) Based on all of the previous points. The document appears professional also because it is published by Bedford St/martin a professional publishing house and in addition to being commissioned by the CDC. This makes it a professional document.

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