Register to attend this Pre-Conference session: - $30 for members (through October 20th)
- $35 for non-members (through October 20th)
Visual Rhetoric is all around us. We are inundated by images on social media, at the checkout stand, in our buildings, and anywhere we conduct business daily. Most of the time we tune the images out and say that they don’t impact us; however, so often the images are influencing our conversations, what we purchase, how we respond to others, etc. In this workshop, we will discuss some of the images that have been deemed iconic and worth noting and how we can help our students process the impacts of visual rhetoric and become more visually literate.
We will focus on one assignment that is being used in a university composition classroom, breaking down the components of the assignment to see how similar concepts might apply in other contexts. We will discuss the reasons that visual literacy is necessary across multiple disciplines and engage in collaborative discussion and development of future assignments for both composition and language learning contexts.
The workshop will be divided into three segments, which include the following:
- Understanding what visual rhetoric is, how it works, how it has been applied to the assignment, and ways to communicate it to students in the process of explaining the assignment.
- Engaging with a portion of the assignment (i.e. processing the image, brainstorming ideas, organizing ideas, etc.)
- Collaborating with other participants to craft a mini-assignment (or a larger unit) surrounding visual rhetoric and visual literacy development.
The workshop begins a discussion surrounding visual rhetoric and the importance of being visually literate.
