Making sense of graphs is partly about knowing what graphing choices you have and partly about being able to distinguish which choice is the best one for your purpose. The rest of this tutorial is designed to help you select the correct graph and the best graph to convey your message to your audience. Please read the instructions below for completing this tutorial.

Instructions:

1. If you have not yet read the Purpose, Objectives, and Philosophy of Graphing sections at least once, please return to the Home page and enter as a first time visitor.
2. Next, familiarize yourself with all four graphs: pie, bar, line, and scatter plot.
3. Next, study the Interchangeability of Graphs and Misleading Graphs sections. Note that both these sections require the prerequisite knowledge that you gained in Step 2.
4. Finally, go to the Apply Your Knowledge section and answer all the scenario questions. This section requires you to synthesize and apply all the previous materials.
5. After each section, you will have a chance to test your understanding by anwering some multiple choice and true/false questions. For each multiple choice question, you will have two chances to choose the correct answer. For the true/false, you will have one chance.
6. If you wish, you can use the Next links to proceed in a linear fashion through the entire tutorial or you can use the menu on the next page.