This week’s post on Bedford Bits describes the work I have begun on revising my course documents to make them more visual. The ultimate goal is to make them more engaging and more useful to students. I started with the…
Tag: Visual Rhetoric
Memorial Day: Bits Flashback for May 30
In honor of Memorial Day, I wanted to point back to an entry I wrote last October on writing about photos. The image I used to illustrate it was the one that came to mind when I thought about Memorial…
BP’s Unintended Lesson on Visual Rhetoric
It’s politically correct to be disappointed with BP and their little oil well problem in the Gulf. But how can I be angry when they provide me with such wonderful gifts? First, BP America digitally enhanced some of their oil…
Bits Post: Using Current Events to Discuss Writing and Visual Rhetoric
Talking about Swine Flu at your school? The news stories and public documents give us current texts we can dissect for use of persuasive techniques and visual rhetoric. Combined with similar materials from the Spanish Flu outbreak of 1918, current…