Bernhardt

Before you Read.

I am currently looking at a piece of yellow paper for Wings Over Athens. I am drawn to the name of the place because it is center and it is a large image at the top of the page. There are a lot of kinds of wings and whatnot and what is available to get. It is a two sided paper and both sides are covered in words. I am drawn to look at this piece of paper and I am hungry right now so I am interested in what I just read.

Summary.

In Bernhardt's article, "Seeing the Text", he basically is trying to get the point across that images can be just as important as words at certain times. Also, the images can back up text in places just as text can better explain images. Overall, more images (visuals) can help the reader better understand what he or she is reading.

Synthesis.

One person that is easy to compare with Bernhardt's article is McCloud's. Clearly both of these two writers think that images are important and can help get a point across more clear. Bernhardt uses charts and visuals and McCloud uses comics. I also think that another person that Bernhardt's article can compare with is Steven King's. I would say this because both use things and try to use them to relate to writing. And yes, overall, both want to help the reader become a better writer.

Response	Quotation
This is saying that if students were able to/used visuals in what they wrote, they would understand what they were writing about more. Not only would the writer learn more, but the reader would also be able to understand it more too.	"If we were to encourage students to experiment with visible features of written texts, we would increase their ability to understand and use hierarchical and classificatory arrangement" (35).
I believe that this is saying that when the writer uses visuals it is easier to get the point across. With visuals, the reader is also able to understand the point better too.	"Writing, especially when visually informative, encourages the writer to be exact about grouping related ideas, delineating beginnings and endings, and using cues to signal to the reader a graphic representation of cognitive organization" (35).
I thought this was funny when I read this because we were just talking about this in class. The introduction/body/conclusion of an essay is where it gets tricky. Now that learning that there doesn't have to be an introduction and 3 paragraphs and a conclusion.	"In a non-visually informative expository text, rhetorical control is typically exercised through the familiar strategies of essay composition. Introduction/body/conclusion…" (36).
I believe that this just shows that how you word certain sentences or text in a paper can have a different kind of affect to the reader. Placing text in different spots can change the out come.	"Also important in the design of the fact sheet was the distribution of printed information on the page" (39).

After you Read.

I think that McCloud would have made an actual comic about his article. If this was the case, I think that Bernhardt's article would have been A LOT better. Because yes, it was boring to read. I think that both would agree that images and/or visuals are very important to use when writing.

Thoughts.

Overall, I agree with Bernhardt. I think that having visuals in writing is important and can make the reader so much more interested in what he/she is writing. This article was a little dry to read though