Reading questions for Wysocki, “with eyes…,” for your blog entry:1.Wysocki says that visual rhetoric is at work when persuasion includes visual strategies.Explain how paying attention to visual strategies help us “learn about and perhaps make changes in other values at work in our culture” (186).2.Give your own example of such “paying attention.”When I look at a page that has been set before me my eyes do a quick scan and I come to a very superficial idea about that paper and its contents.Though I have no idea about the contents I have already judged the paper do to what it looks like.I have been trained,with no fault of my own to do such actions subconsciously.This also happens when i look at a product.Take for example Ultimate Vodka.This product come in a hand blown crystal bottle that is clear with a cobalt blue inlay.The appearance makes the product look expensive and the quality to be exquisite which happens to be completely contrary.This marketing ploy has been used used for ages hence the phrase”you can’t make a silk purse out of a souses ear”which can still be applied to this day.3.Choose several visual strategies from your own weblog, and explore the question posed by Wysocki (195):How would you text be different if it where changed?(Remember, in this context “text” refers to all aspects of the document, not just the words.)The funny thing with this question is that I spent a great deal of time deciding on the visual layout of my weblog.For I knew that with each of the layouts that we had to choose from portrayed a different meaning.That ment whoever would be stumbling across my page would judge me purely on that and not even on my writings.With that in mind I oddly came to my final selection due not to how the visual layout came across to me but where the placement of the links were on the page.I wanted people to be able to see my blog links which in their own way do say something about me.But if i were to change the layout from what it is,the basic gray,to pretty in pick or what not would that just come across as to gay.With that stated,that is something that I had to think about also within my choices.
October 1, 2007
With Eyes I Hear and Ears I See
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