I am finding this assignment to be much easier than I expected. Maybe this is because it’s fun to have the opportunity to express my creative side, maybe because I get to use a format that is new to me for composing my final project, or maybe because I find this process to be much easier than actually writing a research argument essay (which it is).
In having my argument essay complete, the only thing I have to do is decide which points I made in my essay are the most important, and will be the most persuasive to my audience. My audience for this project is my fellow peers, who may know a little bit about my topic, but not so much as to completely comprehend all of my terminology and reason for why my topic is important. My job is to inform my peers to the greatest extent of why they should care about undergraduate biology reformation, and I can do that by organizing my information into an infographic.
The translation of my information has proven to be quite easy for the most part, but in regard to length, it’s been a little more difficult trying to summarize my points to really drive the point home. I want my audience to see my visual and immediately think oh this is about science! (maybe they won’t be so enthusiastic but you get the point). For this reason, I chose my color scheme to be green with small visuals of science paraphernalia (a visual will come in a later blog post, I promise!). Words that are important and are the main points I want to make are bolded, and information is summarized in a few key words or short phrases. In this way, my audience will not be overwhelmed with mounds of information, and will not become lost in what the main point of my infographic really is.
-FH