Anyway, I write a lot. Whether it's a second blog post, a paper for school, or a chapter in the novel I am working on; I spend a lot of my time working with words. I naturally use different formats and visual cues in each type of writing. I had not until this week's readings, however, ever considered the fact that, though my writing lacks pictures, it is nonetheless "graphic". But it makes sense. We don't just think about how we create sentences, but the presentation of our finished writing. I carefully selected a font for this post, and thought out paragraph breaks so that you fine people would enjoy reading what I have to say. As Bernhardt said, we do things like this, "as a means of revealing structure, content, and logical progression."
This simple matter of "graphic" proponents has a huge impact on writing. Everyone judges books by their covers. Wysocki echoed this concept when he said, "The visual presentation of a page or screen gives you an immediate sense of the genre." You don't need to read a single word to have an impression of what kind of writing is being presented. I would be interested in seeing an example where the visual properties and the writing do not match in this way. I imagine that it is rare. Would a disjoint like that provide interest or just confuse and anger misguided readers?
In reference to the Solomon reading, I am just happy to know that someone else is as passionate about punctuation as I am.
First off, Lol. 2nd: How bout blogger and useless tab-key for indents? It's like "new typewriter."
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When I was a kid I loved science and medical books because they had lots of pictures. My folks kept a great deal of Natty G's around and I learned about the world from captions under the pictures. Seriously, I could care less about the article because a great deal of them wrote about "issues that don't exist." I think it is a learned skill or perhaps the gaining of experience that reveals the "graphic" nature of the abstract landscape of things that cannot be taken pictures of. I had to learn that cameras were limited, illustrations often "stupid" or distracting. I like how I imagine Hunger Games, not the movie version actors.In this, I completely agree with you...and I think my best writing cannot have a good "depiction."
Lol, I even html'd spaces and they didn't stick!
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