The article " Multiple Media of Texts: How Onscreen and Paper Texts Incorporate Words, Images, and Other Media" teaches the readers on how to create compositions on screen and writing that deliver complex information, while also making the composition interesting enough to leave the audience wanting more. The author, Wysocki analyzes texts, images, and media that are effective when discussing rhetorical approaches. I had no idea that different sizes and different types of text fonts attracted different responses from the audience. For example, different sizes on font size correlates with the audience the composer intends to attract. The difference in the size of text and style can determine how readers intake the message and their emotional response. Overall, I believe that this text was very useful to me and contained a lot of knowledge that I will take into consideration when working on project 3.
Throughout chapter 1 of “The Bedford Book of Genres,” I learned that there are a variety of ways to improve one’s writing. Several writers tend to get carried away while writing that they forget who their audience is and what message they are trying to deliver. This is when one must ask themselves what their purpose of writing is, do they want to present a narrative/ tell a story, inform, or persuade. After figuring out ones purpose they must choose a genre to be able to shorten their idea and be concise. In order for this to occur one must know the basic qualities and agreed-upon rules about the genre they are composing. Once one makes those decisions they move on to the rhetorical situation which mainly explains the idea. This allows the writer to provide support on their purpose such as saying what is great about it or provide statistics, which will automatically make their writing more interesting for the audience to read, as well as, get t...
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