Final post

It's interesting to think about rhetoric other than through words. I guess we use rhetoric every day when we get dressed. The clothes we wear are meant for the most part to rhetorically convince someone that we are attractive, or fashionable or funny or whatever. This applies as well to the multimodal assignment because we need to use rhetoric beyond words, or visual rhetoric. I'm glad that I have Mary and Tatiana in my group because I think I'm pretty bad with visual rhetoric. I have a really hard time knowing if something looks good or not. I hope that my wife one day will be okay with telling me what to wear or teaching me how to choose good clothes because I think if I was left on my own I wouldn't dress very well. I have a hard time seeing how colors or patterns match. That is a skill that is vital to this multimodal assignment, but is one that I need to rely on my group members for. My main job is to write the words for the website, Mary's is to make the website look good, and Tatiana is the team leader. I'm glad we set it up that way.

Visual rhetoric is a very important thing to learn and to be aware of. The way we look influences what others think of us. Professional places need visual rhetoric even more than they need word rhetoric sometimes because if something doesn't look appealing, people aren't really going to care what the words say. They'll probably just skip over it. It's interesting to think about that.