The information covered in the book on pages 168 to 189 is wide a varied but mostly talks about the use of different media in persuasive composition. This is important for our multimodal assignment because we have to effectively persuade people with our composition using images and a few words. The text went through many different things you would have to take into consideration when you are creating your work. One thing that they stressed the most is your audience. If you do not form your argument properly for your target audience you will most likely not have and effective argument. You must make sure that your audience is capable of understanding or caring your argument or it will not be effective. Another thing it talks about is the layout of the composition. Images grab attention along with bold text. In order to draw in your audience you need to be able to effectively organize your composition so that is aesthetically pleasing. This is good advice because our multimodal project will be primarily images and if they are not presented effectively they may lose power. One extremely important topic covered in the text is about the creation of an abstract. This is good to cover because along with the visual component of our project we need to have a short summary of our composition. Things that need to be covered is why we created the composition that we did and why we used the elements that we did. Envision in Depth also talks about composing our argument into a web page. Since this is one of the potential avenues that we can take in a portion of our multimodal assignment this will most likely be helpful to us when creating our project. When the text talks about creating a website as an argument it talks about effective strategies for creating a website that will effectively argue the point you would try to make. One of the final topics the text covers is creating a multimedia montage. This is very helpful because this is the entire objective of our assignment. It talks about effective ways to argue your point and gives examples of various multimodal pieces and what makes them effective.
