If you design your own style of headings, remember that the fundamental principle of heading design has to do with decreasing noticeability of headings. The tools you can use to achieve this greater or lesser degree of visibility include bold, italics, type size, different fonts, relationship to surrounding text, graphics elements attached to headings, and so on. Use your heading design consistently throughout your document. Simple vertical lists or two-column lists are usually good for the equipment and supplies section. In-sentence lists are good whenever you give an overview of things to come.
Lists are useful because they emphasize certain information in regular text.
When you see a list of three or four items strung out vertically on the page, rather than in normal paragraph format, you naturally notice it more and are likely to pay more attention to it. Certain types of lists also make for easier reading. Like headings, the various types of lists are an important feature of professional technical writing. In professional technical-writing contexts, you must use a specific style of lists. This list style is standard, required format in this course.