ENC1101-29

Think about visual/textual relationships on web pages. Find an article related to your topic and critique the web page for its content, its graphic layout, and its reliability. Do not use Wikipedia, a dictionary, an encyclopedia, or imdb.com. Is it an accurate depiction or can web pages be misleading? How do color, pictures, layout design, and text all work together to create an image about the topic you are dealing with? Post the web page you are analyzing along with the journal entry. Also, consider how words an images differ rhetorically. Can we accomplish different goals through the use of video, still images, audio, and words that we may not be able to accomplish by words alone? When is it appropriate to choose one medium over another? In other words, can an image do something rhetorically that a word cannot, and it what situations are words more appropriate than an image?

For my topic i chose Arthur's Reading Race by Marc Brown. An article i found based on this book was located at the following website.... http://www.randomhouse.com/kids/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679867388
The graphic layout of this page is simple and informative yet is not an elaborate fancy colorful page. There is a picture of the book's front cover in the top center of the page. Ads to the right, links to the left, and below the picture are sections such as "About this book, awards, about this author, and related links." This pages content is straight forward and to the point explaining everything in short paragraphs. Its reliability is pretty reliable with factual information. Color, pictures, layout design, and text all work together in order to create a wonderful image of this book. The pictures explain this book and gives the readers a more visual understanding. The color from the book and the web page picture brings brightness and fun to the story. The layout design of the web page adds formal appeal to the book. It gives more background info on the author, a summary of the book, the books rewards, and other links. It contains information and is neatly organized on the page. With words you can visualize and make your mind interpret it's own image of the that specific word. With a picture your mind cannot be as creative b/c you have a set picture of the object that describes the word. For example if the word is ice-cream. Your mind might think of green mint chip or vanilla with sprinkles and hot fudge. With a picture of the ice cream it might make a set image in your mind. For example the picture might have 3 scoops of strawberry on a cone. This demolishes your imagination and makes your mind set on this one certain image. It persuades you into believing this is the only ice cream it is referring to. Through technology you are able to accomplish more than you would with just words. When choosing mediums an image can do something that a word cannot and vice versa. (This relates to my ice cream example ) Words may be more appropriate in an informative biography, a cookbook, etc. Pictures might be more important in children's books for example Arthur's Reading Race. :)