Visual Rhetoric in a Digital World: A Critical Sourcebook

by Carolyn Handa

Book Overview

This sourcebook helps composition instructors consider what it means to teach visual rhetoric in the context of the multimedia classroom. Drawn from a range of disciplines, readings address visual... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312409753
• ISBN13: 9780312409753
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Bedford Books
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Spot on for teaching media at high school with cross-curricular focus

This book provides a combination of practical considerations and theoretical essays from classic scholars within the visual field, like Roland Barthes. The book is packed with good visual examples such as photos and comic strips, great to use as examples in teaching. The book looks at the traditional division and historical rivalry between image and text, and looks at different ways images can be used for argumentation and rhetoric use, for example in language classes. This is a great approach for a media-teacher in a cross-curricular learning environment, where the division between textual and visual subjects is bridged.