For my website I would choose to make it very clean, but colorful. Wysocki addresses the fact that when looking at a piece of work you automatically categorize it. For example, when you see a black and white paper that is double spaced with twelve font you automatically think of a school paper. For my website, I would choose to veer away from that because I want to attract people of all audiences and interests. Wysocki also talks about the importance of photographs and states that they “add a sense of reality”. I would choose to add photographs to my website in order to make it more interesting and not all words, which can be unappealing to some audiences. Wysocki addresses the importance of font and font size. The font can change the overall appeal of the message so it’s very important to choose a font that matches your message.
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...
I will also be using what I learned from this article and apply it to my website for project 3. I also want to veer away from the black and white school paper type and make my website colorful and unique.
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