{"id":4659,"date":"2018-06-07T18:37:58","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T18:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-businesscommunicationmgrs\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=4659"},"modified":"2024-05-09T15:44:42","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T15:44:42","slug":"introduction-to-charts-diagrams-and-graphic-organizers","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-businesscommunicationmgrs\/chapter\/introduction-to-charts-diagrams-and-graphic-organizers\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to Charts, Diagrams, and Graphic Organizers","rendered":"Introduction to Charts, Diagrams, and Graphic Organizers"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>What you'll learn to do:\u00a0Discuss how to most effectively use charts, diagrams, and other graphics in business messages and identify potential sources for these visual aids<\/h2>\r\nWhen you communicate data, you can\u2019t just throw a whole bunch of numbers on a page and expect that readers will understand what you want to say. 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