How to Write Captions and Why they are Important

In class I learned a lot about why captions are important and how to write them. I learned: 

• Captions are very important because they are the most read copy in publications. 
• Captions answer the questions who, what, when, where, why, and how, adding context to it's corresponding picture. 
• Basic captions, used when space is limited, are only one sentence and identify any people, describe the action taking place, and are fully in present tense. 
• Expanded captions are in past tense and add on to basic captions, adding a quote and one or two more sentences that describe the picture in more detail. 

After this I did a few captions practices until February 1, picking a random picture online and writing both basic and expanded captions for it.