Books Make a Difference in Kids Lives----The
Haves and Have Nots
1)
Outline the infographic essay
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Introduction: It is the reason
why income inequality happens in two different groups that live in lower income
community or upper-middle income community.
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Body: a. Children who live in
lower income community read 1 book per years, but children who live in an
upper- middle income community read 13 books per year.
b. According to the investigation,
the education of children who live in lower income community are much higher
than children who live in upper- middle income community.
c. It suggests that the people who
have higher degree earn more money in average.
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Conclusion: If you are in the
upper-middle income community, it’s necessary to donate money to books to your
child.
2)
Provide the Rhetorical Situation of this essay
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Purpose: The purpose of this
essay is to explain the reason why the education of children who live in lower
income community are much higher than children who live in upper- middle income
community, to suggest parents who live in upper-middle income community to buy
more books to their children.
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Audience: The parents in
upper-middle income community.
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Stance: neutral and objective
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Genre: creative nonfiction
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Media/design: Online. Text and
pictures. The design is clear and easy to understand.
3)
While you are only outlining the essay--not writing it word-for-word--you can
still get a feeling for what this essay would look like. How is the infographic
different from the traditional essay you outlined?
The infographic
is much more direct and clear than the word-for word essay. When audience sees
the graph or the pictures, it conveys a stronger visual aids and delivery
messages quickly. For example, if audience takes 5 minutes to read an essay,
maybe he only needs 30 seconds to read the infographic. It’s a good to save
time to convey the data. What’s more, it is much more specific and concise
because it only picks up the main point.
4)
Strengths and weaknesses of the infographic: what does the infographic do
better than the essay? What does the essay do better than the infographic?
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Strengths: The infographic is
interesting, creative, clear and direct. Author can use the bright color to
highlight the main points and make it easy to follow. In addition, the
infographic will save more time because the pictures are much easier to
understand than the traditional essay.
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Weaknesses: The traditional essay
is more serious, official and logical that the infograpic. Because of the word
limitation, the infographic only shows the mains points of investigation. In
that case, audience will ignore the process of doing this research even though
it is an important part of investigation.
5)
How does the qualify as an essay and not a series of pictures?
There is no
doubt that an essay has a specific theme and the story is developed surrounding
the theme. However, each part of infographic is tightly connected with the
theme and other parts. Pictures is talking about the static moment, but infographic
is much more vivid and meaningful than the pictures, it narratives the story or
data.
For example, I
believe that parents who live upper-middle income community will spend more
money on buying books to their children after they read this infographic.
Because the way of infographic develops is as an essay.
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