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

Tuesday, January 9

• Introductions
• Review Course Description, Schedule, Course Texts/Films, and Getting Started steps.
• What do we mean when we ask, "Do you see what I mean?"

Thursday, January 11

• Complete the 3 Getting Started steps before class.
• Read
  • Guidelines for Responding in Networked Communities
  • Student-Generated Guidelines for Online Discussion
  • Examples: Keeping Online Discussion Lively and Focused
• Read "Visual Rhetoric" (Bernhardt, handout distributed in class on Tuesday).
• In class: Write and post your first blog message in response to the question, "What is visual rhetoric?" Select "what is visual rhetoric" as the category before you post your message. Just supply the best answer to this question that you can come up with this early in the semester, before we've spent much time discussing what we mean by "visual rhetoric."
• Topic for discussion/presentation: What is the scope of visual rhetoric? I'll give you a presentation, and you can follow along if you'd like. The topic is "From Writer to Auteur: What Is an Author in an Age of Visual Rhetoric and Multimedia?"