“Limit page information only to what information is needed on that page. Do not add extraneous information unrelated to the page’s purpose.”
That seems like a very simple instruction to follow, but if you think about it, organization is really hard if you have a lot to say. I have so much trouble writing a story in an order that’s understandable to a reader. People get confused because I don’t transition from one paragraph to the next—as flowing as it aught to be—and that’s only because the writer (me) is getting all of the thought process down first, then organizing afterwards, tightening all that information up with links, bullets, headings and subheadings.
Chapter 2 stood apart from Chapter 1 in its use of whole sections of dialogue, little captions of visually stimulating narration. It’s great use of how to ‘show’ the multimedia participant what you mean rather then overload them.
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I like how you compared the information presented in the text to your own writing style. It also really illustrates the difference between multimedia writing and linear writing. I also thought it was nice how you pointed out the style used in the textbook and how it highlighted the writer's message to the readers.
ReplyDeleteHi Raquel, you did highlight a simple yet important advice from the interactive writer's standpoint. in cases where one is tasked to organize a whole lot of information in a single page, perhaps the greatest challenge would be to decipher how to express the information in as short a word/phrase/sentence as possible and how to present the info to the audience through its interface architecture. hopefully, we will get to practice some of these principles when we make our own informational projects. keep reading!
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