1. Using Visuals/Images in Documents Enhancing, not Decorating

2. What are Visuals? Photos Drawings Diagrams Tables Charts Graphs Maps Or any element that is not strictly text

3. When to use Visuals? Large amounts of data Complex material

4. Why use Visuals? To enhance Usability Readability Clarity

5. When not to use Visuals? When the image Does not enhance usability Is difficult to understand Only decorates

6. Rules for Visuals Keep them simple Title all visuals (discipline rules) Give proper credit

7. Citing Visuals Examples A work of art or photograph, originally in a museum or collection, reproduced Dec. 2009.. A work of art or photograph, originally in a museum or collection, reproduced online with information about photographer, copyright holder, etc. (MLA 5.6.2d) Electrical Washing Machine 1924. Schenectady Museum, Corbis. Web. 28 Dec. 2009.. MLA 7 th Edition

8. Example of Citations This case is for image databases in which the image is not part of a publication. (If you are citing an image in an article or an image in a book, see Case #3 below.) A photograph or digital image that exists only on the Web, or without information about the original (MLA 5.6.2b) Kqeditor. Wall 3. 13 June 2008. Flickr. Yahoo!, 17 June 2008. Web. 28 Dec. 2009.. MLA 7 th Edition

9. Examples of Citations A work of art or a photograph where the original is physically housed in a museum or collection Chicago, Judy. Place Setting for Sojourner Truth. 1979. Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York. Visual Shock: A History of Art Controversies in American Culture. By Michael Kammen. New York: Knopf, 2006. 323. Print. MLA 7 th Edition

10. Examples of Citations Personal photograph - An unpublished photograph that you took personally. Then select one of the following: Photograph: Personal photograph Online: Personal photograph available online (via flickr or similar service) Digital File: A file independent from the Web or a published disc (e.g., a GIF or JPEG file on your computer) Family at 2008 Pakistani Independence Day celebration, San Francisco. 23 Aug. 2008. Personal photograph by author. JPEG file.

11. Generalizations Title. Location, Date, Source.