Quiz – Tufte Chapter 7
1 and 2. What are the two effective "general strategies" or techniques for organizing images in a confection as discussed in this chapter? Choose the two of the following that Tufte advises :
- compartments
- direct labels
- imagined scenes
- aspect ratio
- cause and effect relationships
3. What is the difference between a collage and a confection, according to Tufte? Choose the one that doesn't apply:
- collages use words while confections don't.
- collages express intuitive meanings that usually can't be expressed in words
- confections express meaning that can and often have already been expressed in words
- confections are "miniature theaters of information..." that "illustrate an argument, make a point, explain a task, show how something works"
4. Tufte explains how confections can go wrong. Choose from the following the all features of bad confections , according to Tufte.
- thinness of content
- picnolepsia
- flimsey logic
- poverty of annotating text
- dangling modifiers
- heavy-handed arrangement of structure
- unintruiguing concept
5. For question 5, follow the link from the home page to the Webx discussion “Tufte C5” and answer the prompt there.
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