Graphs, diagrams and infograms for scientific notation

• Marcos Fidel Barrera Centro Internacional de Estudios Avanzados, Ciea-Sypal

Keywords: charts; infograms; diagrams

Abstract

The representative graphic forms of knowledge used to support the concepts
and reasoning characteristic of any argumentation, are of varied conception and,
consequently, of diverse effects and particular allusions. Due to its communicational
implications, it is important to keep in mind various criteria aimed at specifying the
use of drawings, graphs, figures, diagrams and infograms. It is especially important
when the communicational purpose of an academic and scientific document relies on
resources of this nature. In this article, these elements of the graph, diagrams and
infograms are defined for scientific notation, resorting to theoretical notions from
image theory and semantic analysis that allowed their characterization.