Thursday, March 22, 2012
What I feel is important
Through out this course we have learned a lot of important rhetorical tools to use in our writing. But one or two in particular are more important to me. Using description is very important in writing. Describing details helps paint a picture in our readers minds. For example, If your trying to describe an elephant to someone who has never even heard of the animal before your going to describe it using a lot more than its big, kind of round, grey and has a long trunk for a nose. No, you need to to go into depth and use specific details. It can be challenging, we learned this in our description essay. It is a lot of work to describe every little thing, but sometimes it is necessary for a certain audience because we all have different amounts of background knowledge. Visual Rhetoric is a very useful tool me. Everyone learns differently, some people can learn from simply reading, others learn by hands on, I learn from visuals like pictures. There is a saying that a picture says more than a thousand words. Its true. A picture sends a strong message to anyone. Most images are universal, meaning that if you were to take a picture of an adult crying, any person around the world would be able to relate to the emotion and message of the photo. When writing using visual rhetoric and description will help give your message a greater meaning.
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You have used some good examples. It seems like you used visual rhetoric and description as nearly the same ideas. Describing details helps paint a picture in our readers minds sounds similar to visual gazes.
ReplyDeleteVery well done. Using the example of describing an elephant was great, it showed how detailed you really need to be. It was great that you explained that visual rhetoric can be universal.
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