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Chapter 1: Introducing Visual Rhetoric |
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Childers, Pamela, Eric Hobson, and Joan A. Mullin. ARTiculating: Teaching Writing in a Visual World. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1998. This text offers an introduction to teaching writing with visual culture, although much of its focus revolves around the use of the visual as prompts to generate student writing.
Enculturation: 3.2 – This volume of the on-line journal, Enculturation, was guested-edited by David Blakesley and Colin Brooke and focused exclusively on issues of Visual Rhetoric. http://enculturation.gmu.edu/3_2/
Evans, Jessica and Stuart Hall. Visual Culture: The Reader. London: Sage Publications, 1999. This helpful reader contains many seminal essays on visual culture including selections by Roland Barthes, Kaja Silverman, and Mary Anne Doane.
George, Diana. "From Analysis to Design: Visual Communication in the Teaching of Writing." CCC 54.1 (September 2002) 11-39. In this important article, George not only provides an overview of the visual turn in composition studies, but also argues effectively for teaching design as well as analysis of visual texts.
Handa, Carolyn. Visual Rhetoric in a Digital World: A Critical Sourcebook. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2004. This immensely helpful sourcebook collects essays from many visual rhetoric scholars.
Hocks, Mary. "Introduction." Eloquent Images: Word and Image in the Age of New Media. Cambridge: MIT UP, 2003. Hocks’s introduction provides the reading with a solid grounding in the history and practice of visual rhetoric.
Mirzoeff, Nicholas, ed. The Visual Culture Reader. New York: Routledge, 1998. This reader collects many of the most important essays on visual culture, including selections by Louis Althusser, Judith Butler, and Marita Sturken.
Sources in Visual Rhetoric. This site offers a detailed bibliography of sources related to the study of visual rhetoric. http://www.wfu.edu/%7Ezulick/454/visrhetbib.html
Teaching with Cartoon Art: A Selected Bibliography. This bibliography from Ohio State University compiles an impressive range of citations for background materials and pedagogical articles related to political and editorial cartoons. http://www.lib.ohio-state.edu/cgaweb/teaching.htm
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