Working on arrangement * Transitions

By doing the transition activity I perceived that were a few paragraphs that needed to be reviewed. By adding those transition words,  I feel that my sentences have a better flow when reading it and the ideas seem more connected.

Reflecting on my own reflection

What got stuck is that a writer  reviews the lessons from the past, past experiences, material they had encountered, and make conclusions, or relate to their current personal life based on what they learned. I think that my reflection address that. Also, I agree with Leah's take on how the writer has learned something  "when you can see the progression of the argument and information." 

I still need to revise the end part of my reflection, and put some more thought to it. I think that I've made connections with what I've learned and my personal experiences, and i think that it reflects on my learning.

Reflecting on Reflective Writing in our Class

Peter and Evan

An indication that a writer is thinking can be perceived throughout a acknowledgment of a counter argument; a moment in which a writer goes back in time to remember and reflect on something that has happened in the past; or when there is a clear engagement with utilized sources like discussion, argumentation, back-and-forth, etc.

The writing feels honest when a writer is direct to the point in their writing, speaks in an organized way that is considerate of the reader, gives personal significance or examples that shows the writer’s attachment to the subject(s), rather than completely shutting out the opposing arguments.

It seems that a writer has honestly and thoughtfully engaged with other texts, when he/she is aware that their audience might share the counter argument’s apprehension or reluctance and finds a way to be considerate of that skepticism.  Rather than selecting one favorable section of a counter argument source, the writer addresses the opposing source as a whole and finds a way to converse with it, explains their own understanding of the sources, how they relate to their writing, and how to express that to the reader(s).

As mentioned before, a writer who is open to the opposing view might show the reader that they took something of value from those sources. And by reviewing the lessons from the past, past experiences, material they had encountered, and make conclusions, or relate to their current personal life based on what they learned

 writer might describing learning.

Draft Eval

For my paper become a polish product I still need to work on:

Better work with my sources, or engaging with them, provide a list of work cited in MLA format, and add an Academic source to show hard data for my audience. Also, I need to work in structure and organization.

Poster Draft

When drafting my poster I started with invention. I researched figures, photos and other possible ideas in what to make out of my poster. I attempted two different approaches and decided which could be the most effective. Then, I moved to arrangement and style by arranging the pictures and text in different positions, changing color of boarders and re-sized it.  I think that style and arrangement were one of the most important parts on this exercise, which makes me reflect that is perhaps the most important parts of written composition as well. 

Visual Composition and Writing Composition

When making a poster or any kind of visual composition, there are many guidelines, strategies, and techniques to be taken in consideration. This is perhaps what most surprised me from this week’s readings. I’ve made many visual communication posters at my workplace, and despite that I’ve done it thinking in ways to facilitate productivity, I never perceived how many techniques were available to make my posters more effective. With the readings I came to the realization that visual composition is just complex as writing composition.

In visual composition content and form is primarily expressed, taken in consideration the audience in a visual composition. Bang explains that the principles work in conjunction with each other and they are subservient to context and content - to the picture meaning. To add, Dondis states that a message is composed with purpose: to tell, express, explain, direct, inspire, affect. In pursuit of any purpose, choices are made to reinforce and strengthen expressive intentions for maximum control of response. The visual elements have basic substance of what we see, and they are few in number: the dot, line, shape, direction, tone, color, texture, dimension, scale, and movement. Written composition has many of those elements like shape, style, tone, and movement throughout paragraphs. Visual composition like writing composition also has unity. Unity is a proper balance of diverse elements into one totality that is visually all of a piece. The collection of many units should dovetail so completely that it is viewed and considered as a single thing. But, while any visual work can be analyzed from many points of view, most writing compositions provides an explicit point of view from the author.

There is so much to take from these readings that I would have to retype Dobis whole paper to talk about some of the points to remember. It is so rich in information, that is impossible to choose just one part. But, some of the techniques like the importance of balance, symmetry, predictability and so on, and the guidelines are key to compose an effective visual craft, and I hope to never forget. I also hope to remember where I saved these articles and be able to comeback to it, any time that I compose a visual craft.

Draft revision

For this draft I made revisions on arrangement, and delivery. I added some new information and made some grammatical corrections. I believed that it strengthened my writing because it shows to be more concise and it maps out what I will be discussing throughout the body. I also narrowed my audience and worked with my sources with more depth.