After the Inquiry Essay, we had to use our topic to start making a Visual Argument, which gives a summary of our essay. It was like a place where you re-imagine and re-compose your Inquiry-Based Research Essay into a different genre. The goal was to mainly focus on understanding our genre and audience while applying different rhetorical situations. During this assignment, we had to think outside the box and practice our design and usage of media, layout, style, colors, fonts, images, make our work more engaging and clear to our audience.
Brainstorming Questions
What is a “multimodal” argument (a way of communicating an idea that uses more than one mode, or type of communication, such as text, images, video, sound, or color)?
- The multimodal would be the text and the image that will be on the person POV of the two people he or she is interviewing during an interview setting.
Genre: Where is your visual argument going to appear (Instagram, a magazine, school bulletin board, posted outside)
- If I were to make a drawing, I feel like the visual argument is going on in a magazine or Instagram. If I do a political cartoon drawing, then it’s better for it to be in a magazine if I try to connect with people of every generation. But if I am trying to connect people that are in a younger generation then I will put it on Instagram
Who is your audience? What values and backgrounds do they have?
- The audience will be people that have been through this situation of accent bias and how they are seen or treated. Or people that had witnessed this situation.
- Frist generation children
- Immigrants’ families and their lifestyle changing as they came to America
- International students
What is the core of your argument?
Claim and reasons
- My claim will be Standard English continues to influence someone perspective and leads to discrimination and unfairness in many various ways in someone’s life.
Implicit or explicit, visual vs. verbal (if you’re not using text, is the argument still clear?)
- In my opinion, I feel like I need text for people to have a general idea of what the image is trying to represent.
What will be your visual design and layout for a strong impression?
Font sizes and styles
- The fond size would be a medium size, and the style would be like the political cartoon style.
Layout
- The layout would be two people in an interviewing setting and they both speaking English and the person interviewing both is going to have a thinking bubble and have the two people he interviewing but one of them looks “professional” and the other one he sees as a “joke” or takes him unserious.
Color
- Either it is going to be black and white, or it is going to have a dark color theme color depending on what I could see, what color if in the most when I finish drawing.
Harmony between visual and verbal elements
- The harmony would be the image of the two people and the color in the background to have the audience understand the mood in that image. So, the audience could see their emotions.
What images, photos, drawings, or graphics will you use? Memorable? Meaningful?
- The drawing would be meaningful to people that had personal experience of a situation or seen it happen first handed.
Do your images provide evidence for your claim or illustrate a main idea, evoke emotions, or enhance your credibility and authority?
- Yes, it will provide my claim on how “Standard English” have effect on people which could cause a disadvantage on the person that has an accent on their English.
Final Product:
