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1 and 2. What are the two effective "general strategies" or techniques for organizing or arranging images in a confection as discussed in this chapter? Choose two of the following:
compartments direct labels imagined scenes aspect ratio cause and effect relationships
3..What is the difference between a collage and a confection, according to Tufte? Choose the one that doesn't apply:
collages use words while confections don't. collages express intuitive meanings that usually can't be expressed in words confections express meaning that can and often have already been expressed in words confections are "miniature theaters of information..." that "illustrate an argument, make a point, explain a task, show how something works"
4. Tufte explains how confections can go wrong. Choose from the following the all features of bad confections, according to Tufte.
thinness of content picnolepsia flimsey logic poverty of annotating text visual cheating heavy-handed arrangement of structure unintruiguing concept
5. When you click "Send" below, your answers to the first 4 quesitons will be sent and you'll go to the Webx discussion "Tufte's Chapter 7" to write a brief paragraph in response to a prompt there.
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