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Montoya 1 Jake Montoya Dr. Chung EDT 3010 June 14, 2010 Visual Literacy Assignment  In the visual literacy assignment the student is given a tabled image containing written information with four graphic images. The visual is titled “Overproteined.” I honestly do not know what message the graphic is trying to convey. Firstly, the statement “overproteined” is misleading considering the information that is provided. Not all forms of protein are derived from animal flesh. No information is given on nuts and legumes. Most importantly of all, if this visual is supposed to represent animal consumption only where are the numbers for pork consumption. There are two chicken statistics and no mention of pork. Maybe if I had some point of reference the graphic would make more sense.  The overall idea that the visual is interesting, but the lay-out is confusing and jumbled; not much thought was put into how the audience would perceive the visual. Keep the visual as an organizational visual, but align all of the graphics to the left with the corresponding text to the right of the graphic. This alignment will lend itself to a natural sense of contiguity. Lastly, who ever created this visual needs to focus on what the message is that they are trying to convey. Focus needs to be placed either on how much fast food is consumed, how many animals are raised for human consumption, or how many animals are consumed per second in this country. Following these changes would result in a clear, concise and informative visual image.