{"id":503,"date":"2013-11-20T16:50:20","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T16:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janetkayfetz.wordpress.com\/?p=446"},"modified":"2013-11-20T16:50:20","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T16:50:20","slug":"introducing-captions-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riggscreative.com\/clients\/dev1\/introducing-captions-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Captions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A caption is the voice of an image. It speaks for a photo; a diagram; a chart; a bar graph; a drawing; an outline; a list.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>It is the job of the writer to give the image voice so that the reader understands its significance and value.<\/p>\n<p>After you have given the caption a title, what other details should be included? You might consider the\u00a0<a title=\"WALTER\" href=\"http:\/\/janetkayfetz.wordpress.com\/2013\/07\/24\/walter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WALTER<\/a>\u00a0approach to writing a clear and helpful caption. Remember \u2014 the caption should serve to advance your ideas and bring your reader to a better understanding of your point of view.<\/p>\n<p>Jelena Mara\u0161evi\u0107, a PhD student in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University, attended my Academic Writing class for PhD students this September-October. Here is what Jelena says about captions \u2014 and here are her before and after captions for the same image. Thank you Jelena!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore taking the class, I was not sure what to write in a figure caption. I thought that it is better to only have a title for a figure, and explain in the text what the figure presents. Here is an example of the same figure I used in a project report in the Spring semester, and that I am using in a paper I am currently writing (the relation before-after should be clear).\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_447\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/janetkayfetz.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/11\/before.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-447\" class=\"size-full wp-image-447\" alt=\"Before.\" src=\"http:\/\/janetkayfetz.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/11\/before.jpeg\" width=\"500\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riggscreative.com\/clients\/dev1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/before-200x153.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/riggscreative.com\/clients\/dev1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/before-300x229.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/riggscreative.com\/clients\/dev1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/before-400x305.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/riggscreative.com\/clients\/dev1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/before-600x458.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/riggscreative.com\/clients\/dev1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/before.jpeg 629w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-447\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Before.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_448\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/janetkayfetz.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/11\/after.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-448\" class=\"size-full wp-image-448\" alt=\"After.\" src=\"http:\/\/janetkayfetz.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/11\/after.jpeg\" width=\"500\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-448\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">After.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A caption is the voice of an image. 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