The supplemental reading I chose was the article titled "Deaf community outraged after interpreter signed gibberish before Irma." This article was written by Alex Mendoza, an associate digital reporter/producer for the New York Post. Three weeks ago, a category four hurricane Irma passed through Florida. Before the hurricane passed through, everyone in Florida was either getting ready to leave or making preparations to survive the hurricane. In the article, Mendoza describes a press conference where the leaders of Manatee county were giving crucial information regarding the hurricane. The problem as Mendoza points out is that the press conference needed an interpreter for the deaf and the leaders chose an amateur, Marshall Greene. Greene was very bad and would occasionally say words that did not relate with the press conference by accident.

Mendoza later talks about the different reactions people had to this incident. Charlene McCarthey, the owner of a company which provides interpreters, was upset with the whole situation and said she felt bad because she could have provided a much better qualified interpreter, however, the county leaders never asked her. Greene's family was quick to defend him and said that he was just doing his job that the county had asked him to do. Many people on social media were furious and criticized Greene. Others defended him. The deaf community wants an apology for this whole incident. Mendoza, Alex. “Deaf community outraged after interpreter signed gibberish before Irma.” New York Post, New York Post, 16 Sept. 2017, nypost.com/2017/09/16/deaf-community-outraged-after-interpreter-signed-gibberish-before-irma/. Accessed 2 Oct. 2017.

Ambient- existing or present on all sides. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ambient

Each affordance is good in their unique situations. Mendoza chose to use linguistics and describe the video because that was the best affordance to use in his situation. An animation would not be the best and most precise way to describe the event that happened.

Gestural mode is another mode of communication. This one is not as important as the other modes of communication. An example is comparing a confident person to a person who is not confident. The confident person will be relaxed and look at people straight into the eyes. A person who is not confident will avoid eye contact with people and slouch. (Insecure person on the left, confident person on the right)

Aural mode is another mode of communication. Different styles of music also affect how people feel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4pcg7bXgmU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI5ncQ9_wGs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6tR78d0cmA Here are three movie scenes. What do they all have in common? They all use music to create suspense. The aural mode adds to the visual mode to make the scene better. Another aspect of aural mode is tone of voice and accent. A person who talks with a sophisticated manner will be perceived as more intelligent than a person who talks with slang.

Visual mode is another one of the modes of communication.One of the most important aspects of visual mode is color. Different colors make people feel a certain way. An example is the McDonald's logo. The colors red and yellow are said to make people hungrier so the founder of McDonald's chose those colors on purpose. https://sites.psu.edu/siowfa15/2015/09/09/does-red-and-yellow-make-you-hungrier/ Another aspect of visual mode is layout. An organized article is easier to read and more professional than an unorganized article. Mendoza's article is very well organized making it more professional and easier to read than it would have been if it were not organized. His article starts with a video, followed by an explanation, followed by the reactions, and finished with the conclusion.

The linguistic mode is the most important mode of communication. The words a person chooses reflect who that person is. For example, if an author uses terrible grammar and uses slang words, the audience will ignore what the author has to say. If an author speaks with good grammar and uses more advanced words, the audience will believe the speaker is smart and listen to what they have to say. If Mendoza would have written his article with terrible grammar, I would not have read his article in the first place, but even if I would have I would still not believe anything he said. In his article, Mendoza does indeed write well so I can believe what he says.

Pretty much everything is multimodal. The difference, however, is the varying use of modes. A book may be multimodal because of its use of words and pictures, but the book is not the same as a tv show. The tv show would be multimodal because of its use of video, sound, words, etc.

This is a very important statement. People should be reading different types of texts differently. When people read textbooks, they expect to read everything as a fact. For example, I read this book trusting the author is only using facts and not expressing their opinions. On the other hand, when people read an article online, they must be able to read and see if the author of the article is trying to manipulate the entire truth to express their beliefs.

The best texts are made when an author can blend various modes together and when it is clear an author does things consciously. Mendoza's article is an example of a "successful text" because he intentionally has the first thing of the article be the video. The audience first has to watch the video and see what is going on. Mendoza then follows the video with his words to describe the video the audience just saw and to further discuss topics, such as the reactions, which are not present in the video but are related to the video. By describing the video, Mendoza is able to effectively blend the two modes.

This article and Mendoza's article are both multimodal. This article uses the combination of text and pictures. Mendoza's article uses the text and the video to fully describe what happened. The video was a primary source and his words he used to describe the video was a secondary source.