Best practices in labeling

We just had our Reading Week. The first year that I was in school, I didn’t know that Reading Week refers to spring break. I was confused because I thought students were expected to do some readings the whole week. It felt like the person who thought of that name used the wrong label.

There are a lot of other things that use confusing or incorrect labels. Maybe some us think that we can label anything we want as long as we remember afterwards what we called it. Yes, you can do that but there are best practices that we can follow, which will help our audience and us. Here are some reasons of the best practices in labelling. 

• Labels should provide information. At a glance, we should be able to identify what is in it for us in files, bottle or anything that was labeled.
• Labels should be concise. A few words will be enough to describe your item or file.
• Labels should not be misleading. It’s nice to play jokes sometimes but labels are the worst to use as jokes. I remembered that there was an instance in the Philippines where a student died because he accidentally drank a chemical from a mineral water bottle.

Labels are important. We should always try to use the best label for anything. Just compare those things to children. Parents will never think naming their child with an ugly or confusing name.

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