Visual+Literacy+Critique

====**Reflection: Visual Literacy is a concept that many times we don't observe close enough or sometimes even look at. As educators we should look for the mos effective visuals when preparing our lessons, and using visual literacy as well as the PAT principles make it possible. In this assignment, I was asked to take a look at the visual below and recognize it's errors and list ways in which it could be more effective. **====



The visual provided to us is not clear on what it is displaying. From what I understand, it is showing a representation and statistics to state that Americans consume more than too much protein. It gives numbers and Examples of the consumption of certain high in protein foods.

In my opinion as well as under PAT principles, this visual is a terrible aid for its audience. First of all, its title is very unhelpful, not to mention its lack of contrast to draw attention to the reader; “Overproteined” does not tell the reader anything, they can only assume that it is about Americans because of the following written statistics in the tables. There is no organization in either the numbers or units. The repetition of the statistics is redundant and boring to read. For example, the way three statistic end with “each year”, and two begin with Chickens. The information is also inconsistent and in somewhat irrelevant to each other. (e.g. the first square talks about Big Macs, second about chickens, third about chickens again and fourth about hot dogs). Finally, the pictures are aligned in a disorganized manner that confuses and distracts the reader from the information.

Over all, the content (information, pictures) if this visual is very inconsistent, disorganized and hard to follow. It definitely needs some organization, contrast, alignment, as well as better use of color and space. Using the PAT and ACE principals created a different visual, using the same information given in the previews. Below is my edited version of the table.