Shape
The second most useful tool in a designer’s toolbox is shape. Shapes give us the option to show processes, focus our attention, define, and make connections without having to be wordy or explain ourselves (p. 250). My shape of choice for the assignment this week is use of rectangles and arrows. Rectangles typically contain information and show hierarchy while arrows show motion and direction and show a process.
Most of my audience is made up of middle school, 6-8th grade students who do their work online from home. They are being encouraged to attend our Writer’s Workshops that are being provided once a month for 90 minutes to receive help and instruction writing a grade-level appropriate research paper. As a staff, we have found, based on our State testing and that the writing submissions for review, have been well below grade level. Our assumption is that their parents have not been taught how to compose appropriately; therefore they cannot help their students at the level they should be writing.
Within each of my rectangles are found the steps in the writing process, the first being prewriting, the last, publication. Arrows show the direction in the steps of the process and the likelihood of going back and forth between the responding and revising steps.
Most of my audience is made up of middle school, 6-8th grade students who do their work online from home. They are being encouraged to attend our Writer’s Workshops that are being provided once a month for 90 minutes to receive help and instruction writing a grade-level appropriate research paper. As a staff, we have found, based on our State testing and that the writing submissions for review, have been well below grade level. Our assumption is that their parents have not been taught how to compose appropriately; therefore they cannot help their students at the level they should be writing.
Within each of my rectangles are found the steps in the writing process, the first being prewriting, the last, publication. Arrows show the direction in the steps of the process and the likelihood of going back and forth between the responding and revising steps.
Lohr, L.L. (2008). Creating graphics for learning and performance: Lessons in visual literacy. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education.