Reading response Two. By Jimmy Martell
Rhetoric is defined as “the art of using language so as to persuade or influnce others. The body of rules to be observed by a speaker or writer in that he may express himself with eloguence (Kinross132). Appartently, nothing is free from rhetoric (143). For example, the incorporation of color into a timeline chart is an rhetorical stratgy for writers. It make the text easy to read and easily understandable.In the Sorapure reading, Text is marked by the increasingly sophisticated use of space for example indenting, justifing, alignment, hierarcy, bolding, and itiliczing. These elements are essential to visual rhetoric of the text. It makes the text more readable and easier to follow. It seems that a special emphasis is placed on the visual repersentation of a text. Text that are esthictically pleasing are most like to be read making it readfriendly or desireable.
Reynolds also makes some interesting connections with text. He looks at it from different light. He looks at what are familiar elements that all readers look or expect in a text and if those elements are not present. It can become a hardened boundry where people are most likely walk away or will not dive into the text (Reynolds 163). The items Reynolds disscussed are other rhetorical elements that writers or speaker use on a very technical aspect. For me these items are overlooked, I give very little thought to these items although they are extermely important to the effectiveness of the text. It seems like these rhetorical elements are overlooked but are essential and are apart of the visual rhetorical struture of a text.
