September 15, 2008

Response to Sara Ross



I also was interested in the information about not showing hands in pictures. This is common in order to avoid possible rude gestures. I began thinking about how else pictures might need to be censored. Perhaps certain cultures would not respond well to a communication that contained pictures portraying a woman in power.

The chapter also addressed paying attention to the charts and graphs you put in your writing all the way down to the colors you use within the charts and graphs. While making sure your readers are seeing only graphics that are useful to them seems obvious to me, I have never considered if the type or colors would make any difference. I probably do not find the graphics of things that I read distracting because the writer has made good choices.