A good infographic is one that communicates your ideas and the topic you are trying to get across in a quick, concise way that is easy for the audience to understand. The infographic should not have colors that are really hard to see or have fonts that are hard to decipher. For my topic, my audience is anyone who has an interest in soccer or an interest in sports violence in general. My infographic should be able to tell them the main points of the information that I have gathered from my autoethnogrophy research. The information and pictures used in my infographic should be from recent history, probably within the last 10 years. I am not trying to convince people to join a side on my topic, but rather show them the facts that are out there so that they can be aware of the situation. It will be up to the reader to decide what they want to do after they view my infographic.
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After reading the first chapter of the Writer/Designer book and the first two chapters of the Writing and Editing for Digital Media book, I have some new found clarity on this new style of writing. I already knew some of this information coming into this class, but the chapters gave me some real concrete definitions for some new words. I did not know the word mutimodal existed until I read these books, but I can now say that after learning what it is, it makes a lot of sense and I am surprised that this word is not used more throughout schools and the media. The five modes that make up mutimodal writing (visual, linguistic, aural, spatial, and gestural) all make a lot of sense to me and are a good way to categorize such a wide subject. In the Writing and Editing book, I really appreciated how they gave a brief history of writing and media in general because this is information that I have never heard of before and probably would have never heard if I did not read this book. The principles of good writing was also very informative, but I feel that categorizing writing can lead to repetition in writing and a writer's creativity may not be able to be noticed if they have to follow these principles to have writing that is considered "good". I also liked how the second chapter described the differences between digital media and more traditional forms of media. I thought that it covered everything well and I do not feel as if there was anything to add to the section.
After having a long thinking session about what to do my autoethnogrophy on, I decided to make it simple. I want to compare the soccer culture here in the United States to countries abroad. After coming up with this topic, one of the librarian's here at Emory had me tweak my topic a bit by telling me to focus on one aspect of soccer culture and to focus on just one country that is not the United States to do my comparison on. I finally ended up focusing on violence or 'hooliganism' in soccer and my country of choice was England, which was an easy choice after witnessing the events of the 2016 Euros that recently passed. Now I finally have a pretty solid research question which is "What are the differences in how soccer violence is perceived and handled by the soccer community in England and the United States?"
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Ivan WarnerI am a first year at Emory University in a English 101 writing course. Archives
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