Kress 122-175

As with the other chapters, I found myself reading these chapters more than once. I did find the discussion in Chapter 9 of image and text a nice way to wrap up the book. As in Chapter's 4 &5, Kress advises that designers of (electronic) text consider the "best fit" (p. 156) when using various media. Using images to represent concepts more easily represented visually and using text to represent sequentially-based concepts are his recommendations to the designer. Multimodality also makes us aware of how reading paths are determined by the layout of a document. As we use electronic text more and more it seems that the right to left reading path may become a thing of the past.