12-3
MAKE SURE DRAWINGS COMMUNICATE WHAT YOU WANT
A picture is worth a thousand words. But this is true only if the picture says
what you want it to say—to the people you are trying to reach.
Confusion about size
LESS APPROPRIATE
Pictures can mean
different things to
different people.
For example: The
instructor here believes
that this huge picture
of a malaria mosquito
will help students tell
it apart from other
mosquitoes. But
the students do not
recognize it as anything
they have ever seen.
The mosquitoes
that bite them are
not nearly so big or
frightening.
MORE
APPROPRIATE
Whenever oversized, bigger-than-life drawings are used,
it is a good idea to include a small drawing of the thing
showing its actual size.
STILL MORE APPROPRIATE
Even better than a drawing at actual size is, of course,
to show the real thing—better alive than dead.