Using multi-modal to argue

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I was honestly surprised when we were told that we have to have multi-modal stuff in our papers. Like, honestly, who puts pictures in their papers. As far as writing papers go, all the way to Writing 39B, we were never asked to use anything other than words in our paper. It was only for creative projects that we do use things other than words. 

Well my first draft trying multi-modal with HCP was a disaster. Here was my only two multi-modal:

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As you can see, the left one was a neat table and all, but it had too much info and was too small to read. And now that I look back, a paper with pure graphs and tables are quite boring compared to papers with actual images that correlates with their points.

I struggled a lot with thinking of what to put in, but several suggestions from teacher and peers gave me ideas. Below shows on top, the suggestions that was made, and on bottom, things that I put in as a result of the suggestions. 

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As you can see, thanks to the suggestions, I have included things that are more visualized and give a better idea to audiences of what they are reading. Also thanks to these, I have improved on the multi-modal sources that I used. It went a lot easier for me to include multi-modal sources for the AP as I knew what kind of images would help audiences connect more and gain a deeper understanding of the subject.

This class introduced me to multi-modal sources and really helped me understand what kind of images would appeal to my audiences. 

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