Step 2: Create an infographic that summarizes your personal reflection

Create a one-page infographic that summarizes the central message and supporting ideas of your personal reflection.

Your Purpose: Your purpose is to visually represent the main purpose and supporting ideas of your personal reflection in a way that is clear and easy to understand. You need to both inform and persuade. That is, your infographic should attempt to highlight the central ideas of your reflection, while presenting those ideas in a way that is persuasive in order to create interest for your reader.

Your Audience: Imagine you are creating your infographic to be posted to the Seneca College website. It will be posted on a public settingonline. It is intended to reach students at the college. This means that it needs to look professional; it needs to be accurate; it needs to be clear; and it ought to be visually appealing and appropriate in order to connect with students at Seneca. Ask yourself: What would be appealing and appropriate for you?

Your Genre: Firstly, you are creating something to be shared over social media. What does this mean? It means that it can be shared. It means that many people could potentially see it). It also means that how you convey ideas through social media is more flexible. You are not writing an academic summary here; you are summarizing something to be presented visually. Secondly, you are creating an infographic. While there is a lot of room for interpretation as to what constitutes an infographic, you should aim to balance your data, text and images. That is, an infographic makes meaning by relating data, text and images together. A paragraph is just words on a page. A statistic is words and numbers. A picture is an image of something. In an infographic, you have the advantage of combing all three.

Your Language and Tone: For this assignment, you will need to consider your visual language and tone, as well as the language and tone of your words. You will also need to consider your purposeto inform and to persuade.

Your infographic should be visually appealing:

Easy to follow

Well organized

Have clear relationships between segments (parts of the infographic)

Use an appropriate font size and graphics that are properly sized and well balanced

Considers things like spacing, colour, orientation, scale etc.

Essentially, your infographic should be interesting to look at and easy to follow. By its very definition, an infographic attempts to simplify complex ideas by including visuals and a logical structure.

Your infographic should also be persuasive. This means using language and tone that appeals to logic, emotion and/or credibility. This could be with the use of words or images or data. A statistic (data) can be a very persuasive piece of evidence. A picture can carry emotions very well. Quotations can help to establish credibility.