Wysocki Blog post - JImmy
It's
something we don't even think about but yeah when we first look at something we
already know some details about it just by looking at its visual components,
which puts it into a genre. I learned that font is called a typeface and didn’t
realize how each one could convey something so different. Not only does the
font change your viewpoint, but also the page and color and layout can determine,
usually, what you are about to read. A
good section was looking at questions for helping readers make connections
among the parts of a multi-paged or multi-screen text, which I think is very important
because the author does everything for a reason but if you as a reader cannot
pick up on those individual items and connect them then it’s a lost cause. It
was a lot (mostly skimmed) but I thought the individual examples of analysis
was useful because it picked apart different visual genre and talked about key components
and why it worked with it and what it meant.
I like how you gave responsibility to both author and reader. It’s important for authors to write and employ tools that readers understand but it is also important for readers to familiarize themselves with tools and writing styles commonly used by authors.
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