Within my design research reading group, we often have discussions about how to best represent our works, either as traditional text-oriented research papers or

Within my design research reading group, we often have discussions about how to best represent our works, either as traditional text-oriented research papers or more visual as pictorials. Everything will be a paraphrase of the original work, but we always agree that visual mediums are underrepresented and somewhat looked down upon as less legitimate. I think visual literacy as a complement to textual literacy is the missing ingredient; while we're all exposed to analyzing written and spoken mediums at some point in our education, seldom are we taught how to interpret, question, and synthesize visual mediums.