Elizabeth Royte wrote an essay called “The Remains of the Night” which spoke the fact that there is a huge amount of littler in the woods that she hikes through very frequently. She posted her essay on the platform Medium, which allows the writer to upload all different kinds of medium alongside like photos, YouTube videos, links and more! She first began to add photos of the location that she was speaking on in the beginning in order to allow the readers to have an image in our heads. Later on, however, when she begins to speak on how her team was posting different posters and flyers about sex, litter, and the effects of waste and the economical impact. By providing images and different types of media on her Medium platform makes everything more effective. Images makes an essay more effective because they help to create pause in text. Nobody wants to read a long, uninterrupted stream of copy, so by adding that it makes the essay a lot easier to read. They make it easier for your reader to understand what you’re saying. Diagrams or graphics can be priceless when explaining things to the reader, thus working to make your copy much more effective and user-friendly. Pictures keep the reader interested in continuing with the essay. If you’ve just read a paragraph and now there’s a picture with a caption hinting at what your next section is about, it keeps you concerned with learning more. Royte did exactly that, she added a little bit of humor as well to keep her audience engaged. By adding a visual element to an essay adds more credibility, especially since Royte used all of her own images. By providing multiple images within her essay, she was able to make her points a lot more visible and clearly.
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