Anna Hargrove shares with us her composing process that she notes is more true to life than other idealized ones offered in books and by writing teachers. Reflecting on the assignment, she sites her use of oranges and reds to signify the stress that assignments and deadlines bring and motion to show the flurry of activities and distractions that seems to happen all at once at times in the process.

An infographic by Emily Pritchard is shown at left that covers a ten year span in the life of “Pizza John”. Her comments on this piece indicate that while she primarily uses the linguistic mode for her work she has noticed that there are many things that are much easier to convey in images with a sprinkling of text instead of more text-heavy genres. One such instance is the image at the lower right of Hank and John Green . Since the reader brings with them their own experience when the come to a text, the image of the Greens here can allow a better sense of who they are and may trigger memory or other prior knowledge associated with images that aural or text cannot access.