Business Writing @ Purdue

Your reading response should reflect on Ch. 24 as well as the images
that you locate for your paper. How did the information in the reading
contribute to the choices you made? How will you use the reading when
designing your white paper? Feel free to expand on this but be sure to
include specifics from both the chapter and your visuals

The best thing that I gained for the reading is the necessity for each picture to be in the white paper. I am the type of person who goes image crazy, I like my PowerPoints colorful and fun and I tend to get carried away with the pictures and layout of presentations. It comes from my creative nature. From chapter 24 I learned (or relearned) that every picture should have a purpose, they are not just for decoration or entertainment. I think that teachers may be at fault for the over decoration on more scholastic writing. When I first used PowerPoint my teachers wanted an image on every page.

Visual content is what helps to draw the reader to the paper
or it can help to explain things (a picture is worth a thousand words). Visual
content can help your paper or it can hurt it, so you have to be careful of
what you use. In everyday life people look for things that are visually
appealing, the same thing applies to a paper or book. Not only does the paper
need to have a pleasing format that flows, the visual content also has to be
appealing to the senses (sight). Visual added can help to prove a point, assist

I must say visual content is very important to me, and I believe it’s the same for a lot of readers. Every time I go to a bookstore, I always according to the designs or pictures on the cover page to decide which book I would pick up to further browse. Then I would quickly browse the content. Comparing two similar books, I almost always choose the book with attractive visual content because it interests me more comparing to a book has words content only.

Here is hopefully the screenshot!

After reading this chapter I felt like I have come away with alot more useful information that I have in many of the chapters in the past.  The way that the book tells you to use images to persuade and inform your audiance was particularly helpful.  I knew some of this information in the past but I was not very familiar on how to use a image to persuade someone.  After reading this chapter many of the ways that they tell to persuade just started to make sense with things that I have already been doing whenever I include an image with a paper or document.  I think that this just shows the p