"Multiple Media of Texts"

My initial reaction of reading Wysocki's "Multiple Media of Texts" was that the author points out the readers subconscious in an interesting way. For example, Wysocki explains that the way we percieve certain genres such as an academic paper or story book have a lot to do with the assuming from the visuals which could contain large pictures and text for a story book or 12 point roman fonts for academic papers. When reading I found myself agreeing with a lot of what the author said, when I saw different examples of shapes of text I made assumptions of what genre they were. After reading this I think it will help me set up my Wix website in a much better manner. I am aware now that certain colors, shapes, text, photographs, and sounds are very important to presenting my topic in a way that will be convincing but not confusing to my audience. I have learned to consider what the audience would expect from an academic presentation but also how to create a visually pleasing presentation by using what is expected from the genre. Also, when other classmates present I can use what I have learned from this text to better analyze how they used certain aspects of the media of text.