Writing to me has become more visual over the years. One part is to make it easier for the reader to understand what they are reading and to comprehend it a bit clearer and easier. I think in Leonardo da Vinci's piece he was explaining a diagram that he had drawn and that is why there are is so much text around the picture. As the years go on sciencetists are discovering more and more about certain subjects and more detail is going into every discovery. This brings more information to the surface and now drawing a picture to describe a certain subject is easier on the reader to understand what is being said. Now the internet is becoming a house hold thing where children not even in there teen are searching the web. If online books and websites are more visual it makes it much more entertaining and visually pleasing the viewer. I believe that the writing in the near future is going to start to look like Leonardo da Vinci’s work. It is only a matter of time before there are more diagrams and pictures describing what are written in college level text books. In some cases it is quit easier to understanding something for the first time if you have something visual look at while tring to read it.
Chris,
ReplyDeleteI see what you are saying here and can apply it to what we have been learning at Manhattanville too. Specifically, in Theories of Communication, many of the theories from both the Process school and Semiotic school were very intricate. Looking at them in diagram form was often much easier to understand than written in paragraph form. Even when comparing and contrasting two subjects, it is much easier to understand and remember the information if I apply it to a venn diagram.