The purpose of a good infographic is to convey the idea of your subject while giving background information of the topic in a concise and organized manner. A good infographic needs creativity and a great design to keep the reader interested. You must hook the reader into your infographic with different designs and possibly color schemes. The infographic cannot contain too many words but still must be able to give the reader sufficient information about the topic. If there are too many words the reader will quickly lose their focus on the information. The data used in the infographic needs to be focused and can be displayed in different formats; such as, pie charts and graphs. It is important that the infographic is visually aesthetic, but also not too visually complex so that the reader has a hard time looking at the infographic. It is also crucial that the different parts of the infographic flows very well so that the information is all over the place. To summarize the key parts of creating a great infographic, the goal is to be very concise and to grab and retain the reader's attention while getting out vital information on the topic of your project.
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Writing and Editing Chapter 1
This chapter talks about the basics to writing for digital media. The first thing that we learn is that it does not matter what type of media you are writing for (news story, novel, letter, etc), the principles of good writing are identical. When writing and publishing one should be both brief and concise. A writer should also be very precise when coming to selecting vocabulary. A good quote to represent this is "When I use a word it means exactly what I say, no more and no less." - Humpty Dumpty, from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass. Chapter 2 In this chapter, the author introduces us to how it's different to write and read for digital media compared to hand-written pieces. The author talks about how the average human attention span for digital media is not very long at all, so it is very important to be able to skim and gather information from these online projects quickly. The three important roles of being a digital media writer are being a communicator, organizer, and interpreter. The author states that the writer's credibility affects these three roles, and transitions with this into writing bias. "Research has shown that the credibility of blogs has much to do with bias..." The author explains how writing with your opinion is better than writing with it absent. Being able to detect and see bias, is essential to the credibility of information in the digital world. Writer/Designer Chapter 1 This chapter first explains the basics of multi-modal productions. The five modes of multi-modal projects are linguistic, visual, aural, spatial, and gestural. Visual mode involves color, layout, style, size, and perspective. Aural mode entails music, sound effects, ambient noises and sounds, silence, tone of voice, volume of sound, and emphasis and accent. Spatial mode includes arrangement, organization, and proximity between people or objects. Gestural mode involves facial expression, hand gestures, body language, and interaction with people. Each of these modes are explained and given specific examples. The first steps to writing multi-modal projects is being able to describe and explain the different types of modes. "Multimodality gives writers additional tools for designing effective texts." The author explains how multimodality is useful when trying to appeal to a large and diverse group of readers. My topic is on American born Chinese students at Emory. I chose this topic because I am included in this topic and I want to see how others similar to me feel. I want to get to know their experiences as an American born Chinese at Emory. What are the benefits and downsides to being in these two very different cultures? How was it like growing up and being different from most other Americans? What was it like to be exposed to the Chinese culture at home with your family but also be exposed to the American culture at school? For me, growing up I had some struggles juggling two different cultures at once. Sometimes I would be swayed away from one culture; for example, eating lunch of school I would bring a sandwich like most other kids instead of bringing typical Chinese food because other students would say that it was weird and had a funny smell to it. In contrast to this, at home my family and I will nearly eat Chinese food every single day. When I was young I had difficulty understand my identity; what do I mean by this? I mean I was born in America, but when people look at me and ask me where I'm from, there is a sense that I am not fully American and that I don't fit in with the majority of Americans. However, whenever I go back to China I feel foreign. Of course my appearance fits in but the way I live is completely different from these Chinese kids. So I thought to myself, am I Chinese or American? Because I don't feel that I completely belong as either one of those. As I grew up, I began to learn how to use the "best of both worlds" and I enjoyed being both Chinese and American. I found out that I am neither Chinese nor American, but that I am both. I am proud to be a Chinese born American.
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