1. Nonlinear Elements ENGL 3190

2. Textual Information Usually displayed linearly, line-by-line Some rhetorical situations require nonlinear presentations

3. Types Tables Flowcharts Organizational charts Decision trees Concept charts

4. Consider this … You want to travel from Ogden to Farmington on FrontRunner To find your arrival time, you have to sift through text

5. Schedule FrontRunner from the Ogden Intermodal Center departs at 5:08 AM, arrives at Roy at 5:15 AM, arrives at Clearfield 5:23 AM, arrives at Layton 5:30 AM, arrives at Farmington 5:40 AM, arrives at Woods Cross 5:53 AM, arrives at Salt Lake City Intermodal Hub 6:07 AM

6. Luckily UTA provides riders with a fairly clear table http://www.rideuta.com/ridingUTA/viewSchedule.aspx?abbreviation=750&dir=1& service=4&signup=77&pdaView=False http://www.rideuta.com/ridingUTA/viewSchedule.aspx?abbreviation=750&dir=1& service=4&signup=77&pdaView=False

7. Data Displays Show quantitative information using images Rhetorical situation guides effective displays

8. Types Bar chart Pie chart Line graph Scatter plot Maps

9. This is the World (right?)

10. How about this?

11. Or this?

13. Pop Culture Reference for the Day http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8zBC2dvERM

14. Rhetorical Situation Audience Purpose Context

15. Examples

16. Sources Kostelnick and Roberts, Designing Visual Language, 1998. Maps: http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/notes/mapproj/mapproj.html