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Visual Rhetoric

Series Editor, Marguerite Helmers

The Visual Rhetoric series publishes work by scholars in a wide variety of disciplines, including art theory, anthropology, rhetoric, cultural studies, psychology, and media studies.

Other Books in the Series

Ways of Seeing, Ways of Speaking: The Integration of Rhetoric and Vision in Constructing the Real, edited by Kristie S. Fleckenstein, Sue Hum, and Linda T. Calendrillo

Writing the Visual

A Practical Guide for Teachers

of Composition and Communication

Edited by

Carol David and Anne R. Richards

Parlor Press

West Lafayette, Indiana

www.parlorpress.com

Parlor Press LLC, West Lafayette, Indiana 47906

Printed in the United States of America.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Writing the visual : a practical guide for teachers of composition and communication / edited by Carol David and Anne R. Richards.

p. cm. -- (Visual rhetoric)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-60235-046-5 (pbk. : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-60235-047-2 (hardcover : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-60235-048-9 (adobe ebk.)

1. English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching. 2. Report writing--Study and teaching. 3. Visual communication--Study and teaching. I. David, Carol, 1931- II. Richards, Anne R., 1961-

PE1404.W743 2008

808’.042071--dc22

2007051124

Cover Images: “Sacred Sight, Island of Djerba, Tunisia,” by Anne R. Richards. Used by permission. “Smooth Sea after Sunset,” by AVTG. Used by permission.

Cover design by David Blakesley.

Printed on acid-free paper.

Parlor Press, LLC is an independent publisher of scholarly and trade titles in print and multimedia formats. This book is available in paper, cloth and Adobe eBook formats from Parlor Press on the World Wide Web at http://www.parlorpress.com or through online and brick-and-mortar bookstores. For submission information or to find out about Parlor Press publications, write to Parlor Press, 816 Robinson St., West Lafayette, Indiana, 47906, or e-mail [email protected].

Contents

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction | Fields of Vision: A Background Study of References for Teachers

Anne R. Richards and Carol David

2 Seeing Rhetoric

Nancy Allen

3 Mediated Memory:

The Language of Memorial Spaces

L. J. Nicoletti

4 Visual Rhetoric for Writing Teachers: Using Documentaries to Develop Student Awareness of Rhetorical Elements

Barbara Worthington and Deborah Rard

5 Envisioning Justice: Racial Metaphors, Political Movements, and Critical Pedagogy