ENGL 505A

Extended mentoring, observations, and life in general has kept us apart (as a group) for far too long. We haven't had much time to talk about upcoming assignments. The visual rhetoric project comes on the heels of the advocacy project and before paper #2 (which for some/most/all of you will also be an advocacy project). My suggestion for the visual rhetoric project is to make it either an extension of the topic of the previous advocacy project or a part of paper #2 (with the latter being preferable in my mind). If students are thinking about local/national/global advocacy for paper #2 have them look at the visuals that surround those campaigns as well (websites, games, brochures, billboards). How are those things created? Where is the proliferation? Who is the audience? How can they tell by the medium? The content? The message? Have them do both an analysis and a critique. This will give them a good chance to sneak into their topic for paper #2.