D246: Influential Communication through Visual Design and Storytelling

Influential Communication through Visual Design and Storytelling builds the skills to genuinely move an audience — visuals and narrative techniques that create lasting impressions.

What D246 covers

The course provides foundational visual design and storytelling techniques to influence and create a lasting impression on audiences, exploring how human behavior is influenced by visuals and when to apply visual techniques to better communicate.

Learners learn techniques for creating compelling stories that create memorable images within the audience's mind, applying visual and storytelling techniques to not only communicate but influence or motivate an audience.

The D246 performance assessment

Expect a performance assessment requiring you to design a visual/narrative communication piece intended to influence or motivate a specific target audience.

Key topics in D246

• Visual design for influence
• Storytelling techniques
• Audience psychology
• Creating memorable, motivating content

Writing tips for D246

Follow the task instructions and rubric line by line

WGU performance assessments for D246 are graded against a fixed rubric — every rubric line has to be visibly addressed, usually with a labeled heading that mirrors the rubric language. Skipping a rubric point because it seems minor is the single most common reason a competent submission comes back "Not Yet Competent" for revision.

Ground your work in a specific audience or organization, not generic advice

Courses like D246 typically hand you a specific audience, brand, or organizational scenario and expect your work to genuinely fit that context, not communication/design principles in the abstract. Evaluators check whether your reasoning is grounded in the specific scenario given.

Because WGU is self-paced, don't let "no deadline pressure" become no submission

There's no weekly due date forcing progress, which means procrastination costs more at WGU than at a traditional term-based school — a stalled task can quietly eat weeks of a term. Treat your own target date for the D246 assessment as a real deadline.

Why students seek help with D246

Candidates sometimes create visually polished content without a genuine persuasive/motivational intent behind it — the rubric typically wants that influence goal explicit and achieved, not visuals for their own sake.

How GradeEssays helps with D246

Share your audience and goal, and your writer will build a visual/storytelling piece genuinely designed to influence that specific audience.

Prerequisites and program context

D246 has no listed additional prerequisites.

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