Considering Visual Elements

My genre uses limited amount of images usually one at the beginning and some graphs or charts used throughout the article to give context or explain various numbers referenced in the article. The questions below helped me consider adding these visual elements into my project.

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Creating Visual Coherence-

• What color choices?
• My article will be written on white paper with black text. The only other color will be in the visual images which will have appropriately colored graphs and be aesthetically pleasing to the eye.
• What font choices?
• I will use times new roman and use a larger text size for the title. The main body of the article will use 12 point font so that it is easily readable.

Creating Visual Salience-

• Image Selection?
• The images I choose for my article will relate to the subject of nuclear fusion. More specifically I will use a picture of Tri Alpha Energy as the leading image and graphs of data I wish to show throughout the paper where it makes the most sense to paste them. This will validate my logos style argument and bring my audience into complete understand of my topic. The opening image is used to say a thousand words because giving a visual of the main example of my subject is most important.

Creating Visual Organization-

• Text?
• My paragraphs will be medium length with complex sentences because I want the audience to gain as much information as possible in a limited amount of space. However, I will double space my text because it makes the text easier to read. There will however be limited space in between paragraphs to conform to the conventions of the genre.
• Images?
• I plan on have 3 or 4 graphs explaining various numerical points and one opening image that really encapsulates the main example my subject will be based on. I am using this limited amount of images to conform to the conventions of a short length to my paper that both articles in the economist and editorials in the New York Times typically conform too.

Creating Visual Impact-

• Placing an image at the topic engages the reader right away and if the image is striking enough will draw them to read the article. Also, it gives a visual reference to the people and the company my subject will be exemplifying. The graphs are there to show visually and numerically points that need to be emphasized such as how much money is being spent on nuclear fusion project, how much total these nuclear fusion project cost and so on. Furthermore, the use of graphs adds credibility if properly cited.