By Cho and Mariam
Class lecture and discussion
Announcement By Dr. Crowther
I have an event at GSU downtown tomorrow, so my office hours will be 9-11 instead of the usual 10-1.
Tuesday in-class:
As usual, we started the class with the daily grade #17, where Dr. Crowther asked these following questions: What did you learn about yourself as a writer and your writing process from essay 3? What went well, and what was challenging? This daily grade was particularly to reflect about each student’s writing process, and the challenges faced during the process.
After the daily grade discussion, we discussed about “Project 4”, “Engage for Change” referring to the injustice issues written in Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson. She explained in detail the component of project 4, gave us tips on how to successfully meet the goal of the project, and the criteria as well. Additionally, for choosing the diverse groups our teacher, Dr. Crowther ask us our preferences. She allowed us to write a name of two students that we would enjoy working with in order of us to complete our project on a piece of paper.
Groups for Engage Change Project:
Group 1: Omarr, Mariam, Joli, Cho, Unati
Group 2: Joel, Mohan, Peter, Thien
Group 3: Sirjana, Katie, Tyler, Isabell
Group 4: Noela, Ariana, Erin, Devante
Group 5: Kelsey, Lena, Aaron, Kaesen
Afterwards, we discussed about the project proposal and the deadline for submission. Our teacher suggested us to send the proposal before Thursday for her approval, so we can have more time to work on it. Then, 30 minutes before the end of the class, we regrouped ourselves in our respective group for brainstorming, making suggestions for the “Engage in Change” project.
Thursday in-class:
INFORMAL class, no daily grade. Our teacher asked us on Tuesday to decide if we wanted to come to class to work on the project, go to the library or to the actual place to engage, because we were not going to do anything except working on the project. Most groups left the class on Thursday 11/16 to work on their project, while Dr. Crowther was grading Essays 3 (research paper).
Reading for 11/14 & 11/16
Chapter 5 Challenging Writing (designing Visual Texts)
In this chapter, the author discusses about the visual design of texts. “the tradition prints novels, look very simple from a visual standpoint: page after page of paragraph after paragraph, broken only by occasional headings for new chapters. Visual designing makes the reader to have construct ideas. Mostly the designs are made for the people to entertain and make then interest to the materials they trying to approach. One crucial concept of gestalt theory is the importance of the space between objects; negative space or white space. Negative space is the “background” of an image, which is often white but might be any color. The human tendency makes proximity. The spatial relationships among groups of objects an important design consideration
. Our eyes continually scan image, reacting to what we are seeing, moving from one individual element to the to the next. In the absence of other strong influences, similarity will even cause viewers to cognitively group objects across large spaces. When we focus on an object on a page or a screen, other aspects of what we see fade into the background. The part that we focus on is called the figure, and the part that fades away is the ground. There are numerous ways to structure or lay out text and graphics on a page or screen, but to simplify things let’s cover one common method. In the grid system, you create a set of vertical and horizontal lines on a blank page and use these lines to guide the placement and alignment of content on the page. When we talk about paying Attention which is one of the difficulties of paying attention to typography is out first instinct to value transparency.
Although there are many ways to categorize type, one simple method splits typefaces into two categories. Those with serifs and those without. In general, typefaces with serifs tend to look more modern. When we talk about matching the type to Audience, Context, and Purpose the three typefaces above all look somewhat similar. They are all sans serif faces. But if you ok at them closely, you’ll begin to see subtle but important differences. Most striking is the differing amounts of space taken up by each. As a part of your thinking about design deciding what media you can Handle. You’ll want to consider carefully whether you have the expertise in the medium you’ve chosen. Crating complex visual designs or multimedia texts on a computer seems extraordinarily easy especially if you’ve seen the process only in software commercials.
THANKSGIVING BREAK, NO CLASS!!!!!!!!