Writing Instruction http://blogs.elsweb.org/writinginstruction Currents and Conversation in Composition (blogs.elsweb.org weblog) Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:00:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 en Who has incorporated visual rhetoric in an English 101 assignment? http://blogs.elsweb.org/writinginstruction/2007/07/27/who-has-incorporated-visual-rhetoric-in-an-english-101-assignment/ http://blogs.elsweb.org/writinginstruction/2007/07/27/who-has-incorporated-visual-rhetoric-in-an-english-101-assignment/#comments Fri, 27 Jul 2007 23:43:57 +0000 mrigsby http://blogs.elsweb.org/writinginstruction/2007/07/27/who-has-incorporated-visual-rhetoric-in-an-english-101-assignment/ At 4Cs a couple of years ago, Warren and I attended a session which showcased the work of FYC students who were asked to take a completed academic argumentative essay and translate it into a “cartoon” strip.  The work required a represenation of the argument, showing the relationship of the ideas to the argument and making use of visual metaphors.

I’ve asked students to attach an illustration to their research paper, awarding them an extra point if the illustration was a visual metaphor rather than just a literal illustration of something mentioned in their research.

]]> http://blogs.elsweb.org/writinginstruction/2007/07/27/who-has-incorporated-visual-rhetoric-in-an-english-101-assignment/feed/ Why are you doing that? http://blogs.elsweb.org/writinginstruction/2007/07/25/theory/ http://blogs.elsweb.org/writinginstruction/2007/07/25/theory/#comments Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:24:58 +0000 mrigsby http://blogs.elsweb.org/writinginstruction/2007/07/25/theory/ Have you stopped to ask yourself why you are making the assignments you make?  Can you connect your English 101 course design to current research and theory? 

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