Camila Moreira

Revising a Professional Document

Analysis of Success & Failures

I chose a website page called Sample Terms and Conditions Template on termsfeed.com

1. Where is this document used?

On a website called termsfeed.com

2. What is the interaction it accomplishes?

The interaction it is meant to accomplish is to explain what to include, and how to

enforce adding terms and conditions to your contract or website.

3. Who uses it and to do what?

For anyone that wants to add terms and conditions agreement to their document.

4. What subjects does it discuss?

What to include in the agreement

How to enforce the agreement
Downloading a template

5. What relationships does the document suggest?

The relationship it suggests is how to become familiar with this agreement, and what
it is supposed to do for you.

6. What roles does the document suggest for

participants?

Serves to be an instruction guide, as well as a download tool.

7. What are the language practices common to this

genre? Are there any language practices that are
privileged or ignored?

The language practice that I see is to be descriptive, but random. Adding facts that are
not in order, and have no flow.
What is, ignored is helping readers find out what paragraph they are on. It does a poor
job of have a nice flow to help readers find out what an agreement is, why they need
it, how many they can use, and to whom they should be giving it too.

Camila Moreira
Revising a Professional Document

Changes
Layout
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The changes that I would make in this document is to create a list at the beginning
to answer these questions:
o What an agreement is?
o Who it is for?
o Why they need it?
o How do they use it?
This would allow me to completely rearrange the sentences by making sure they
answer the questions in order.
I would also have a list of reasons why they need to use it, and a disclaimer telling
them what happens if they do not use it.
I also notice a lot of the repeated word Terms and conditions agreement is: to
help the reader, and make this more reader-friendly I would abbreviate the word
and just make it: TCA. This would allow for easier reading, and less redundancy

Image
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I also notice their image on the right hand side is just a plain box saying terms and
conditions template
o I would change this by adding a funny image, or something more
engaging to the reader to get them interested in what they are
reading.

Design
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I would change the labels, and headers making them more clear to separate the
subjects, because now it is difficult knowing which section you are on.