Reading Response: Week 12
This chapter addresses the design of an argument by introducing formats and modalities. The chapter describes different types of arguments like written, visual, verbal, and others, thus introducing its modalities. On written modalities, three formats are explained: scholarly, public scholarship, popular scholarship. On visual arguments visual ideas are developed like the purpose, and visual components, as well as well as the relationship between visual and written components. Furthermore, verbal arguments are introduced along with its modalities. For example, verbal arguments can take place in a debate format, or speech.
This chapter connects with my major, criminal justice when it comes to the formatting. For example, when a filing a complaint, a warrant, an arrest form, a court case, evidence format or whatever the case may be, format is essential. A person working in the criminal justice system needs to file paper and it is important to file them right. It also connects since the criminal justice system combines different arguments. Sometimes, visual, verbal, and written arguments combine to form a new component. When in court, sometimes evidence is presented through pictures, which is visual, and they argue in court defending their side, which is verbal, and writing their statement down, which is written. This chapter made me understand my discipline better because now I understand how different arguments have different modalities and how they can combine their components.
The readings made me understand my major assignment, AVA, better because I got to understand better the visual arguments and the correlation the different arguments can have. It explains very well the structure as well as the purpose. It made me ask some questions when working on my assignment like, do the visuals reinforce what the written text argues? Does it back up the written components? And lastly, is there a reasonable balance between the different types of arguments?
Lastly, I chose the first gif because it made me think of my field, criminal justice. It is important to file information, evidence, and statements. The second gif was basically a reaction of me when asking these questions.