Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Extra-Credit: Visual Rhetoric

Visual rhetoric not only allows you to express a persuasive opinion via photos or videos but it helps you capture your audience attention at a much faster rate. I do believe that visual rhetoric is something to be aware of. I would agree that learning it would be great as well but considering how many people are constantly blogging or on some sort of social media, I’m pretty positive they already invest in making visual rhetoric without even realizing it.

I like most typical girls keep some sort of social media such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, and a blog. I believe that my personal blog displays most of my visual rhetoric. On my blog I tend to post a lot about my personal life, photos, and/or videos that exemplify the life I live. It is through my blog that one can get a true genuine sense of who I am as a person. Though I try my hardest to keep my blog updated it’s getting a bit more difficult to do with school and finals.


Moreover, I also use visual rhetoric by the way I dress. Most days (key word here being most) I try to dress girly and nice—by dressing well I feel like I send off the message that I am a girl who is well put together and tends to have things correctly organized. While other days I will wear jeans and a hoodie due to the fact that I either slept in or did not want to put effort in how I look. The way one dresses or presents themselves shows not only their mood but also how they feel about themselves. For example when dress real bummy (sweats, hoddie, hair up with no make-up) probably will mean I’m having a bad day and that I do not feel good. These are the days to avoid me haha. In all seriousness though, I believe that we send out some sort of visual rhetoric about ourselves/our lives through the way we dress and what we post on social media each day. Therefore, visual rhetoric is very important for our every day life.

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