This reading was all about how you layout out pages, like how you want the paper to be oriented, paragraph break ups, colors, fonts and the overall organization of your piece.
The first section of this passage is about the size and orientation of your page. The size page you choose affects how much information you can include in your paper. The smaller the paper, the less information you can fit on it, go too large though and it can be hard to focus on one point of text, or if the paper is online will take to much scrolling around to find it.
It then talks about how to break down the material into “readable units” It basically says large, lengthy paragraphs are boring and hard to read. The text says break it up with color and fonts, text boxes, lines and images.
It moves on, saying that putting the most important stuff at the top of the page and the less important stuff at the bottom is a great way to organize your paper.
The article says alignment is important, that you want to direct readers down and across the page. You can do this through lists, tables and frames.
It also tells you to avoid clutter and revise to flow and readability. And which fonts are best for that. I had no idea that’s how those symbol fonts were used!
This passage is all about inserting photographs into our writing. Saying it “enlivens” our writing.
The images we use can come from many sources, just make sure they don’t have a copyright or you could get in trouble for using them. I just ran into this when I was trying to find pictures for my Buzzfeed article, but I’m pretty sure the pictures I used were all good.
The book says you should edit your pictures, cropping, re sizing and coloring the images before you actually place the image in your paper.
Here is an image I edited for project 3:
Analyzing Visual Rhetoric
This was a very quick, two page passage with questions to ask yourself when looking at visuals.
There were some of the ones we’ve all heard before, like who is the audience, what is the purpose, genre and medium.
Then there are also new questions that take from the other two readings we had assigned, like are the margins sufficient and are the fonts readable.
These questions will be helpful when writing up the report on all of our genres.
