Considering Visual Elements

After reading through Chapter 16 of Writing Public Lives, I have chosen a few questions from that section and answered them in the post below.

Bachmann, Matthias. "Sunrise". April 3, 2014 via flickr.
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What color choices best reflect the visual rhetorical tone of my project?

• The color choices that I feel best fit my project will include blues, greens, yellows, and whites. Although I am focusing more on the negative aspects of geoengineering, my project still does relate to the environment. I might change this as I go along, but I am very drawn to these colors because, to me, they symbolize the purity of the Earth.

How might I vary the fonts used in my project for emphasis, such as in the title and body of my project?

• I will be varying my fonts in a very simple manner. My title will have the largest font and any subsections will be slightly smaller. My body paragraphs will be the smallest, but will be in the easiest to read font to draw attention to it.

Is the theme or association that the image produces relevant to the theme of my argument?

• The theme of the images I have chosen all have to do with the Earth being in danger. It fits well with the theme that sulfuric aerosol injecting is dangerous, thus putting the Earth in peril.

Scan your public argument or your outline. Do your eyes move easily from section to section in the order that you intended?

• After scanning through my outline I noticed that I don't like how my supporting arguments flow. I think I can fix this problem by moving my second point down a paragraph. That way I can go from negative impacts to costs to how it doesn't address the source of the problem. This order makes more sense to me.

If you are writing a multimodal argument, do visual images help you move from point to point in the argument clearly?

• The images I have chosen will certainly aid me when I compose my project. It will be easier to tell if they help to move me from point to point once my rough draft has been composed.

Do too many visual images make your text busy or disorganized? If so, which images might you omit?

• Being so passionate about the environment, I was initially drawn to incorporating many images that reflected the degradation of the earth. I then realized that my purpose would become lost in a sea of images. Instead, I have elected to use a handful of images that I feel really captures the tone of my piece.

Do the different visual or textual elements come together persuasively as a whole, or are there elements that seem disconnected or out of place?

• The only visual element that worries me in the picture that I plan on including at the end. My intention is to close out the piece by looking ahead for a brighter future. The picture that I plan on using is one of a calm lake, but I fear that it, along with the last section of my post, may seem a bit out of place.

If you are calling your audience to take action, are the consequences of not taking action and the benefits of taking action clearly expressed?

• Looking at my outline, I have certainly addressed the consequences of not taking action. By that I mean that I have explained how it is already impacting my audience's life. I guess I could explain how it will only worsen if nothing is done to stop it.