Week 14

Read more selections from Writing the Visual: A Practical Guide for Teachers of Composition and Communication, edited by Carol David & Anne R. Richards (Parlor Press, 2007). These excerpts will be posted as attachments.
Your instructor is on another trip, so you'll see a video in class and meet in groups. Please watch the movie and post your comments!
Research Project Step 4 due: The Exploration Project will be the stage when you foster intellectual "turbulence" by investigating the many facets and problems of your subject, asking a number of questions and offering a number of answers for each question, without feeling the need to present these questions and answers in a tightly organized essay. You may compose your Exploration Project as an exploratory essay or by answering more directly a set of questions that will be provided. You'll be given additional guidelines for this step. (Suggested length: 1,500 words)

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