Today, I read Elise’s post on chapter 14 of the book, “Everything’s an Argument”. The main ideas of the response are about the use of visual arguments in persuading their viewers. Both of us chose to mention the impact of visual arguments on the tendency to trigger one’s emotions and furthermore, how visual media can help verbal appeals to pathos, ethos, and logos. The difference in our posts is that she used different examples. She used the college instructor example while I used the flags and McLunhan’s statements to support the main ideas. Since we had similar ideas, I didn’t really find anything new. Rather, her post reinforced my claim that visual arguments are powerful and useful in our academic writing.