Designing Printed and Electronic Documents

The topic discusses design by explaining the key elements such as proximity, alignment, repetition, and contrast. According to this reading a writer needs to through planning including analyzing the purpose of the writing, the audience expectation, topic of discussion/writing, and the context & genre. Planning and organizing the project, is then followed by implementing design; overall impression as whether the design should be fun type or serious, hyping or conservative. Then the overall layout of that employs proximity, alignment, repetition and contrast. The last part of design, format, comes at the end. This part discusses the type, size, and color of font, usage of white space/ grouping of text, and listing items to guide the readers’ eyes to focus on the most important content of the writing. Finally the visuals were discussed in detail as when or what kind of visual to use. It was interesting reading with a good analogy to the ancient Peruvian art that used proximity, alignment, repetition, and contrast in honor of their sun god.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

English 1010 Blog Reviews

BLOG	1010 Insight	DirtyBirdys	Tinyline 16	Denver English Bloggers	The Word Nerdz	English Spill Drill
Organized/Consistent:	9	8	9	10	10	10
Personal Connection:	8	8	9	8	8	10
Hook/Voice:	7	9	9	8	8	8
Visually Pleasing:	8	7	6	10	8	9
Multimedia:	8	8	9	9	9	8
Popularity:	8	8	8	8	8	8
Timeliness/Frequency:	9	9	9	9	6	9
Length Fits Purpose:	9	9	10	9	10	9

1010 Insight: Well organized, pretty good voice, overall a strong blog. The variety in text color/font/size is nice but at times is a little too wild.

Lauren Not La-Fonda (DirtyBirdys): Well organized, very unique voice, and great pictures. Overall a very good blog, but the plain black text-on white background gets a little boring.

English Spill Drill: Great, simplistic blog that overall achieves class expectations

Word Nerdz: Besides having a 2 week gap between posts, and overall good blog.

Tinyline 16: Greatly-written posts, overall visuals could be better.

Denver English Bloggers: Pretty, good voice, well organized. Colors make everything easy to read.

Denver English Bloggers Review

      We decided that we like the Denver English Bloggers' blog the best which is means for doing a review on it. We like it because it is very well organized, they took advantage of the colorful text option, they have different pictures and videos than most of the other blogs and the writers have good voice.
      Their blog has the drop-down archive to the side to provide easy access to any post that one would need to look up, their blog ratings are all in one spot with brief explanations below and in the posts it is easy to quickly see what they are writing about. Their posts have different colors for different purposes and/or topics that made it look neat and organized and is easy for the reader to follow.
      The colors on their pages also make their posts less boring because the reader sees lime green text and wants to read it. There are multiple colors in each post, one for the title, for each heading and the body of the post.
      Each writer creates posts that display the way they write and it's like they're talking directly to us. Sometimes they will have lists, simple sentences or just bursts of thought and that contributes to their voice as well. Each one is unique.
     They don't pick the same pictures and videos that everyone else does. Their pictures are clever and relevant too. Like the Dr. Seuss one, no one else has that!
      Good job! It's pretty with all the colors and organizational greatness and interesting pictures. We congratulate Denver English Bloggers on their wonderful and beautiful blog.
     

FALSE DILEMMA

      "False Dilemma" is an informal fallacy that omits a choice between two extremes intentionally to deceive readers or unintentionally. False dilemma also known as either-or fallacy is one of the most common fallacies because it is easier way of persuation as well as easier for people to use it accidentally with out throughly investigating all the possible choices. The statement "You are either with us or against us," is a good example of false dilemma because a person is entitled to the choice of not being affiliated with any group, but the fallacy is ignoring the fact that people could be in between (not on either side). Another example is   the famous Eldridge Cleaver's presidentias statement "You're either part of the solution or part of the problem." In this case Cleaver is the possibility that people could be neither part of the solution nor the problem. Eventhough, it is easy to fall into this fallacy we can avoid it by considering every possible options including the options that might not suit ourself. This is ofcourse given that the writer is not intending to mislead readers on purpose.

Handy-dandy Problem Chart

Basically if you feel like some aspect of your essay isn't quite up to par you can find the problem in this chart and it will advise you on how to fix it. 

      If you are having trouble presenting your subject you probably should add visuals, eliminate unrelated details and/or refer to other people's writings in a way that strengthens yours.

      If you are having trouble with clarification you should alter the language in your thesis and state your thesis early on in your paper and if your judgement changes you should change your thesis

      If your reasons and support are faulty you should clarify and justify by relating your point to the point of someone else who is considered an expert. Explain how your point is related to your thesis.

      If your counterargument is lacking you should probably think about it and why it is the counter then think about why your point is right instead and write that down.

      If your essay doesn't flow well you should consider reading it through and reorganizing it. Add appropriate transitions and signal when you are moving on to the conclusion.

Now you, hopefully, don't have a crappy essay! 

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Black or White Fallacy

The black or white fallacy is basically a statement that is narrowed down to two choices when more options exist. Politics being popular right now, a perfect example of this would be your part of a polotical party (Democrats,Republicans) or your against them. In reality there is an in-between, Indpendent. Black or white fallacy is a perfect name for this type of fallacy. Its either black or white, not red, green, blue or any other color. In order to avoid this type of fallacy, you need to have knowledge about what your talking about. Looking at all perspectives would be beneficial, knowing all aspects of the idea, and not taking an extreme stance for a certain argument.


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