Using Visuals/Images in Documents

Enhancing, not Decorating

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

When to use Visuals?

Large amounts of data

Complex material

Why use Visuals?

To enhance

• Usability• Readability• Clarity

When not to use Visuals?When the image

• Does not enhance usability

• Is difficult to understand

• Only decorates

Rules for Visuals

• Keep them simple

• Title all visuals (discipline rules)

• Give proper credit

Citing Visuals Examples

A work of art or photograph, originally in a museum or collection, reproduced Dec. 2009. <http://www.corbisimages.com/Enlargement/Enlargement.aspx?

id=HQ001277>.

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.

<http://www.corbisimages.com/Enlargement/Enlargement.as px?id=HQ001277>.

MLA 7th Edition

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.

<http://www.flickr.com/photos/25674484@N00/2587314825/in/set-72157605664615484/>.

MLA 7th Edition

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 7th Edition

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Personal photograph - An unpublished photograph that you took personally.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.

Generalizations

Title. Location, Date, Source.