This blog will assess the four sources listed below. These sources give tips on creating a weebly website, and help to give a stronger definition to multimodal writing, and break down design into four simple steps, which are contrast, repetition, alignment, and proximity, and how these four things can help you create something that is very appealing to the eye.
How to Create a Weebly Website (Video Tutorial) All Writing is Multimodal (Cheryl Ball and Colin Charlton) It's All C.R.A.P: Four Principles of Design (Think Around Corners) Assessing Multimodal Student Work (Kent State University) Why are we creating a website for our English Composition I course? We are creating a website to act as our personal portfolio to hold everything that we are writing in our english course and beyond. How do Ball and Charlton define "multimodal" writing? Ball and charlton define multimodal as two words combined together, the first being multi- or many, and the second being modal meaning style. So multimodal is writing that has different styles incorporated in it. Do you agree with Ball and Charlton when they claim "all writing is multimodal"? I do agree for the most part that all writing is multimodal. While some writing such as poems are strictly poems following a format, but other authors use their own influence to change the style of writings between two different modes. As a web site 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. 1 Aural: If everyone spoke in a monotone voice nothing would have a tone or any meaning behind it, and it would be quite hard to remember anything as you would stop paying attention. 2 Visual: Visual writing allows the reader to picture in their head what is happening in the story as it happens to the narrator or main character. 3 Gestural: Gestures allow the author to add emphasis to their writing by adding hand gestures or even moving about to keep your attention. 4 Linguistic: Linguistic writing allows for the author to convey his or her thoughts on paper which is not always the most important thing as you can write a compare and contrast essay or create a Venn Diagram and both of these methods convey the same information. 5 Spatial: Spacial writing just refers to the physical placement of a body of writing which I do not see as the most important aspect. What does the C.R.A.P. acronym stand for? C.R.A.P. stands for contrast, repetition, alignment, and proximity. As a web site 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. On a scale of 1-5 I would rank alignment and proximity as a 1 being the highest as when things are placed to close together or are very scattered it makes it hard to focus on the page. I would rank contrast at 3 because if your page is all the same it will start to get dull to look at. Repetition I would rank as a 4 or 5, when you begin to repeat the same things over and over they begin to dull the impact of anything. What are the seven sample criteria Borton and Huot suggest writers use to assess a multimodal composition? Borton and Huot suggest these seven criteria to assess a multimodal writing. Purpose, audience, tone, organization, transitions, synthesis, and details. 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? The Borton-and-Huot criteria seem very similar to how we judge our traditional essays. Many rubrics look for tone, organization, transitions, details, and our focus - which combines audience and purpose.
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