English 680V: Visual Rhetoric in a Technological Age (Purdue)

I decided to make my project into a series of videos- four on trailer business and one introduction, and post it to a website for public consumption.

My progess has been waylaid by a number of factors, but here are the first three videos in the series:

web.ics.purdue.edu/~lsoderlu/Introduction.mov
web.ics.purdue.edu/~lsoderlu/Kuleshov Effect.mov
web.ics.purdue.edu/~lsoderlu/Percy Video.mov

So here’s my project and it’s all y’all’s fault that it ain’t done.

While trying to bring together a semester’s worth of exploration, I came upon the difficulty that Morgan explores in her term project: this doesn’t work as a linear text. Not knowing where I wanted to start assuming prior knowledge on the part of my reader, I found myself writing in blurbs, each targeted at an 18 year-old audience (Thanks, Pepper). So then I decided that this whole InDesign thing wasn’t quite so bad after all (mad props to the ICaP Doc group) and started experimenting with a textbook style document design.

Dave,

I have attached a draft of my working document. I like the direction it is going. I'm still a novice with regard to critiquing visual tests, however, so any advice you offer will be greatly appreciated.

Here is the Conferencing Group's final manual.

Hey all,Attached is my outline that contains the information I have gathered for the drug culture emergence part of the project, as well as a short essay that talks about what I would like to see in terms of form for a project like this (or any other emergent information investigations). Peace and happy summer!

Attached is my final paper on mirror neurons and the theories of Kenneth Burke. Though the paper is still rough, I am pleased with the way the focus is shaping up, especially the final argument about mirror neurons and identification. I would appreciate any commentary or suggestions about this work.

And without further ado, here is the link to my individual project--a lovely online essay about reimagining ad use in the composition classroom. It's got pretty pictures and I hear that reading it might even be good for your health!

http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~mpepper/adsinclass

Attached.

Cold bloo-ded!

Take It!

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