In Class: Reading

From last nights reading, I learned about the importance of visual arguments. The book talked about how visual arguments are a reflection on our character. Additionally, in regards to our presentation, the book talked about making a purposeful visual argument rather than an accidental one. We need to remember this when constructing our visual arguments so that we have a purposeful visual presentation that makes sense and impacts our specific audience. It discussed how to make the visual argument warm and appealing with little things such as font size, color, and style. Another important piece of information the book talked about was how to make visual arguments using statistics. The book gave examples using graphs and pie charts to point out important statistical pieces of information. The book also talked about how visual arguments can appeal to emotion, like pictures of Hurrican Katrina victims leading to relief groups. Lastly, the book discussed how to organize the information on in the visual argument in a way that is meaningful and not just haphazard, like utilizing text boxes for pieces of information that we want to highlight. All of these things will be important to incorporate in our visual presentations in order to make an effective visual argument.