My Thoughts on Visual Rhetoric

     Visuals seem like they are always a godo thing to include with any written assignment. Everyone knows just reading the information given can be boring and unappealing, so everyone tries to spice up their documents using some sort of visual rhetoric. The Internet made this even more prevelant as images were able to be shared very easily amongst people and the same picture can be used a countless number of times without the knowledge of the original publisher of the image. It is funny becasue soon we will be able to place some sort of visual for any idea or document we are considering, but the question is whether or not this is always a good thing. I have noticed that a lot of images are used for the purpose of purely decorative and there is no new or sometimes even no information at all in certain pictures that can relate to a topic. In thisi nstance, a person should refrain from using these images as they will not only act as a minor distraction to the document and will actually take away from its overall effectiveness. The key is to use images that really can display the information in am roe effective way, by visualizing it rather than reading it off the page and internall visualizing it. Images should be a vision for thei nformation that the author came up with in order to not have to make the reader do it themselves. The image should aid the reader, rather than distract them. Visual Rhetoric as I see it is not always a good thing, but it can be very effective if used the right way.