Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Writing Project 5

Design and Reflect on a Visual Composition

Writing Project 5 due, Thursday, April 10—Group Project

This writing project is solely a "writing" project in name only. This writing project includes designing a visual composition, along with a write-up to accompany the visual composition. Using the CRAP principles will be an essential component in this visual design process.

Page 1 of this writing project should be the visual composition, and an equally impressive caption that explains the graph, timeline, or map. This caption should also include the sources used in consultation and reference for the production of this visual composition.

Regarding the visual composition: these are a good way to visually represent information to an audience that might otherwise be difficult to explain, and this visual composition should be a graphic that explains something significant about your band. A "family tree," or lineage of how the band developed over time, a timeline that features your band's albums, or a map of the hometowns of each band member are examples of how you might choose to design a visual composition.

Whatever method of visual representation you choose: graph, timeline, map, chart, or family tree, it should be eye-catching, use the CRAP principles, and exhibit an overall well-designed thoughtfulness.

This visual composition is a requirement for final research papers, and you may use this writing project's outcome as the final research paper's visual composition.

Page 2 of this project should be a one-page reflection on the visual composition. Take a paragraph or two to describe the choices you made in composing the visual, and then give some background related to the actual visual composition. Why did you choose to do a horizontal timeline, a pie chart, or map. Connect the visual with the message that you are trying to convey with your design.

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