Welcome to my Second blog post. In this post I will learn the multimodal nature of website design and how to apply multiple modes when creating posts. I will also answer eight questions based off the reading and about multimodal work. The links below are connected to the readings and video I analysed for this post.
Here are the questions I am responding to in this post: 1. Why are we creating a website for our English Composition I course? We are creating a website to be used as our digital portfolio for our English Composition 1 course and to have a writing platform we can carry with us beyond our English course. 2. How do Ball and Charlton define "multimodal" writing? Ball and Charlton state that multimodal means multiple modes. Modes being communicative acts or techniques that help make meaning. In Ball and Charlton’s article, they list five modes that assist in making meaning. Those are: linguistic, aural, visual, gestural, and spatial. 3. Do you agree with Ball and Charlton when they claim "all writing is multimodal"? I agree with Ball and Charlton when they claim that “all writing is multimodal”. Since mode consist of being the communicative factors that assist in making meaning, it makes sense that all writing would have multiple modes in order to make meaning. An example of this would be a any horror writing. In horror, Spacing between wording and phrases can assist in adding suspense to the text. When describing something in any piece of writing it gives it a visual and plants an image in the reader, the font of the text also adds meaning to how a reader interprets the writing. Another way to look at visual would be if the writing had photos to go along with it. Overall, it’d be harder to not see all writing as multimodal. 4. As a website author who will create your own web page content in this course, how would you rank the importance of the five modes on a scale of 1-5? Please provide a brief rationale to support each mode ranking. I would deem all modes except gestural as 5’s. I feel that in making a web page, visuals hold a high importance due to their impact on the viewer. If someone was to make a page that consisted of information about flowers, but the page was filled with images of lava, that would be counterintuitive to the flowers. The spatial mode holds an importance for organization. Too much empty space can cause the page to look incomplete while too little of empty space can ward of viewers rather than attract them. Linguistic and Aural modes are of equal importance because of how they intertwine. You have to take into account what you are trying to say to the viewer and how they will hear your text when they view it. I give the gestural mode a 3. This is because the mode alone is unable to really make meaning on a web page unless you make a video. Gestures can be used with linguistics and space to assist in making meaning, but will usually not be seen on a web page. 5. What does the C.R.A.P. acronym stand for? The acronym, C.R.A.P. stands for contrast, repetition, alignment, and proximity. Contrast means to make the elements of the writing stick out from each other. Repetition means to repeat organizational patterns (shapes and colors). Alignment means to align the different elements to make things easier to read. Proximity means if things are associated with each other or not. 6. As a website author who will create your own web page content in this course, how would you rank the importance of the four C.R.A.P. principles of design on a scale of 1-5? Please provide a brief rationale to support each design principle ranking. All 4 parts of C.R.A.P. are 5’s. When creating a web page, the more organized it is, the easier it will be to navigate and appeal to the audience. Ignoring any one of the 4 parts could result in a webpage that is visually straining on the audience and the website author. 7. What are the seven sample criteria Borton and Huot suggest writers use to assess a multimodal composition? The seven sample criteria that Borton and Huot suggest writers use to assess a multimodal composition are purpose, audience, tone, organization, transitions, synthesizing, and detail. 8. Do the Borton-and-Huot criteria seem similar or different from the criteria we would use to assess a traditional print essay? Why or why not? Borton and Huot’s criteria are similar from the criteria used to assess a traditional print essay. When writing a traditional print essay, you would first look for a specific purpose being conveyed in the thesis of the essay and a way in which the essay identifies its specific audience. This parallels Borton and Huot’s first 2 criteria, purpose and audience. Following this, a traditional essay will set a tone which assist in the theme of the essay. The theme in a traditional written essay seems to be the organization and tone part of Borton and Huot’s criteria. The use of transitions is found in both criteria. The use of sources, references, quotes and citations resembles the synthesize criteria. Meanwhile, it’s very evident that both criteria require the usage of detail.
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