Wysocki

Summary
Wysocki's article deals with understanding beauty and being able to connect certain things like form and content within text. It starts off by viewing an add, which brings forth not only interest and satisfaction but also desire. This first example sets up a long article on the opinions of Wysocki and how Wysocki is explaining to other teachers the best way to teach the students just how to interpret better what they read.

Synthesis
The first thing I thought about when I turned the page in Wysock's article and got to the diagrams is Kantz and the triangle method. Using visuals in this way can really help a reader better understand what is being said, which is definitely needed with this article. Another person that was easily able to be connected back was McCloud, with both authors talking about the importance of visual not only what is being said throughout the text. Finally, Bernhardt came to mind when reading this article because Bernhardt not only looked at what the words said but how the words were put as well.

My thoughts
I found this article to be very complex and heavy. Some things could have been stated a lot more clearly and did not need to be put in ways in which to try and confuse the reader, which is what seemed like was happening.



Dialectical Notebook

Response	Quotation
Beauty is something that is more of a perception thing, and depends on who is perceiving it.	“My inability to come to a satisfactory accounting leads me to consider how notions of beauty, developed in the late eighteenth century, have been used in attempts to hold together two different orders of being and – by our time – have failed.” (80)
I never thought to think of form and content being somewhat one in the same. To say that form is actually found to be in content, it just never crossed my mind.	“..they also help me see grounds for shaping how we teach visual composition so that form does not override content, so that form is, in fact, understood as itself part of content, so that, finally, I better understand how to support students (and myself) be generously and questioningly reciprocal in our designings.” (80)
To me, this made me think of how lost one can get while viewing something and instead of focusing on the text, lost in the image instead. The whole of the quote was hard to understand completely.	“If we understand the body in the Peek layout through memories of losing ourselves in the curvy maternal body; then we are of course being given a body presented not as thinking or as even present to herself, in contrast to Arnheim’s description of how we are likely to understand a centralized male figure.” (85)