Delivers fully relevant comprehensive coverage of the three course units: Technical Graphics 1, Technical Graphics 2, Computer Graphics, Full colour drawings, diagrams and photographs illustrate key points, Each topic takes a step-by-step approach, with clear examples to show how drawings should be approached, A designated chapter on the Thematic Presentation guides students through their coursework, Includes exam-style questions and exemplar material to improve assessed response

The Higher Graphic Communication Course Notes helps teachers and students map their route through the CfE programme, providing comprehensive and authoritative guidance for the course. Course Notes give a practical, supportive approach to help deliver the new curriculum and offer a blend of sound teaching and learning with assessment guidance * Full coverage of the new Higher course specifications with list of learning intentions* Attractive layout with clear text features* Key questions highlight crucial concepts and techniques that need to be grasped by students in order to progress to the next learning intention* What the examiner/assessor is looking for to help teachers & students feel secure* End of unit material - unit assessment, exam-style questions with worked answers and examiners commentary, self-assessment

A comprehensive history of data visualization—its origins, rise, and effects on the ways we think about and solve problems. With complex information everywhere, graphics have become indispensable to our daily lives. Navigation apps show real-time, interactive traffic data. A color-coded map of exit polls details election balloting down to the county level. Charts communicate stock market trends, government spending, and the dangers of epidemics. A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication tells the story of how graphics left the exclusive confines of scientific research and became ubiquitous. As data visualization spread, it changed the way we think. Michael Friendly and Howard Wainer take us back to the beginnings of graphic communication in the mid-seventeenth century, when the Dutch cartographer Michael Florent van Langren created the first chart of statistical data, which showed estimates of the distance from Rome to Toledo. By 1786 William Playfair had invented the line graph and bar chart to explain trade imports and exports. In the nineteenth century, the “golden age” of data display, graphics found new uses in tracking disease outbreaks and understanding social issues. Friendly and Wainer make the case that the explosion in graphical communication both reinforced and was advanced by a cognitive revolution: visual thinking. Across disciplines, people realized that information could be conveyed more effectively by visual displays than by words or tables of numbers. Through stories and illustrations, A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication details the 400-year evolution of an intellectual framework that has become essential to both science and society at large.

Presents a contemporary approach to teach the engineering graphics skills. This title covers design concepts, the use of CAD, the basic visualization and sketching techniques that enable students to create and communicate graphic ideas effectively. It includes examples of how graphics communication pertains to 'real-world' engineering design

'Official SQA Past Papers' provide perfect exam preparation. As well as delivering at least three years of actual past papers - including the 2008 exam - all papers are accompanied by examiner-approved answers to show students how to write the best responses for the most marks.