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Chapter 1: Introducing Visual Rhetoric |
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American Rhetoric. The American Rhetoric website contains three brief exercises ("Cool Exercises") on its left navigation bar. The Rodman example provides a particularly amusing look at rhetoric. http://www.americanrhetoric.com/
Art21:On-Line Lesson Library. This lesson in cartoon commentary from PBS’s Art21: Art in the Twenty-first century Website offers several different exercises for use inside and outside of the class room, including comparative analysis of political cartoons as well as a make-your-own-political-cartoon assignment. http://www.pbs.org/art21/education/abstraction/lesson2.html
Cartoon Analysis Worksheet. This worksheet from the National Archives provides students with a rubric for analyzing cartoons. http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/analysis_worksheets/cartoon.html
The Comic Creator. This plug-in, designed for high school students, "invites students to compose their own comic strips (prewriting, pre- and postreading activities, response to literature, and so on)." The site contains a link to this interactive tool, as well as several sample exercises addressing comics as visual rhetoric that could be adapted to the college classroom. http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/student_material.asp?id=21
Newsweek Education Program: Analyzing Political Cartoons. This on-line introduction to Newsweek Education’s print resource offers a helpful introduction to analyzing political cartoons, one which is particularly useful for students who may be having difficulty grasping the process of analyzing visual rhetoric. Be sure also to explore the Cartoon-Year-End issues, available in html and .pdf format under the Extras! Link of the Resources menu. http://www.newsweekeducation.com/extras/policartoons.php
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