Infographic project

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1.     Modal: http://visual.ly/text-talk

What is useful: After looking through the infographic, I know the infographic talks several things. Its organization is totally different from the example organization professor shows on the class, which is approaching the organization of my TED talk’s infographic. I can learn how to include every element in my infographic and use the similar shapes to connect different content.

What is not useful: In my infographic, there is no data comparison. It is useless for me.

Q: How does this modal accommodate the content?

A: It talks about that texting is very popular nowadays and texting is a big business, which is shown by statistics in the infographic. The author divides parts of the whole infograghic into two columns to show some comparable items, which is very clear. The author also quotes some main ideas. 

2. Outline:

  Introduction: Social scientists spend a lot of time finding that body language has significant effects on the way people judge someone else and others judge them. However, the most important point in the body language is that we are the audience of the body language. People always forget that they are influenced a lot by the body language.

Body:       A. Nonverbal experiences of power and dominance

When people have power, they arm up in the V and lift their chins slightly. They want to expand themselves. When people have no or little power, they wrap themselves up and make them small.

B. Three questions

a. Can people pretend to participant in the events?

Yes. When people pretend to be powerful for two minutes, they will really get power.

b. Can our bodies influent our minds?

Yes. People who have power have higher testosterone and lower cortisol.

c. Can people have more significant future after being the same useful gesture for a short period of time?

Yes. Employers are more likely to hire people who have powerful gesture.

C. Amy Cuddy uses her personal experiences to indicate that if people can pretend to have power and try best to do, they will be successful in the end.

Conclusion: “Fake it till you become it.” Amy Cuddy is very willing to spread her knowledge out. She hopes people who have less power can finally get successful using her method.

2.     How will your infographic accommodate your content?

Firstly, I am going to compare two postures using two columns. One exits when people have power. The other one exits when people lose power. Secondly, to shows these three experiments, I am going to use the method that is used in the infographic on the class. This format will show the cause and the effect well. Thirdly, I will quote some important sentences to express and explain the idea. Fourthly, decorate the infographic to attract more readers.

4. What will you steal from other infographics?

  As I mentioned before, I will steal what the infographic (shown on the class) do to talk about the three experiments. At beginning, the person is powerless. Then, he pretends to be powerful for 10 minutes. After that time, he really feels that he is powerful. As a result, the recruiter selects him. It illustrates that body languages influences minds and then affects results.

5. Infographic draft (Because I am not good at in drawing, I draw the same people to represent the different people. In the final work, I will make them different.)