Visual Rhetoric

Writing in Academe; Writing at Work: Using Visual Rhetoric to Bridge the Gap. Elizabeth Tibeaux
This is a good article that discusses classroom writing activities and the use of visuals.

What’s Visual about Visual Rhetoric? Debra Hawhee and Paul Messaris.
The article provides a really good look into how images work in various contexts to persuade.

VIZ and University of Texas

This is a fantastic blog site for all things “visual rhetoric” – The winning digital publication viz. is committed to the intersections of Rhetoric and visual culture. In keeping with its mission to promote visual literacy, the viz. blog presents a daily community forum for discussing  images in the digital age.  The website attracts a steady, significant following with an international audience made up of users from 144 countries and territories.

Digital learning, digital scholarship and design thinking

This paper identifies opportunities for design thinking to be integrated into digital learning and digital scholarship initiatives. The paper traces how the rise of digital culture has led to the reconsideration of models for learning and the call for new modes of knowledge production, spearheaded by an array of fields from writing programs to computer science.

Practicing Safe Visual Rhetoric on the World Wide Web

Article by Pat Sullivan offering advice about ways to approach analysis of visual design and navigation on websites.  Very useful article for a class if you are teaching web analysis.

Visual Literacy

This is a very useful guide created at Duke designed to offer very pragmatic and simple aspects of visual design to consider when analyzing websites, images, etc.

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