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Rhetorical Visions Reading and Writing in a Visual Culture

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ISBN-10: 0131773453

ISBN-13: 9780131773455

Edition: 2007

Authors: Wendy S. Hesford, Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Delagrange, Rebecca Dingo

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"Rhetorical Visions "is the visual reader with the most support for analytical writing. This thematic, visual reader uses rhetoric as the frame for investigating the verbal and visual texts of our culture. Rhetorical Visions is designed to help tap into the considerable rhetorical awareness that students already possess, in order to to help them put their insights into words in well-crafted academic papers and projects. In order to exercise their analytical reading and writing skills, "Rhetorical Visions" provides occasions for students to explore and apply key rhetorical concepts such as narrative, description, interpretation, genre, context, rhetorical appeals ("ethos, logos, pathos"),…    
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List price: $110.40
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Pearson Education
Publication date: 11/14/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 656
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 2.2
Language: English

Brenda Jo Brueggemannis Professor of English and Disability Studies at The Ohio State University where she coordinates the Disability Studies program and serves as a Faculty Leader for the American Sign Language Program. She has authored, edited, or co-edited seven books.

Rebecca Dingo is assistant professor of English and womenrsquo;s and gender studies at the University of Missouri. She is the author ofNetworking Arguments: Rhetoric, Transnational Feminism, and Public Policy Writing.J. Blake Scott is associate professor of writing and rhetoric at the University of Central Florida. He is the author ofRisky Rhetoric: AIDS and the Cultural Practices of HIV Testing,coeditor ofCritical Power Tools: Technical Communication and Cultural Studies,and winner of the 2007 NCTE Award for Best Collection of Essays on Technical and Scientific Communication.

Alternative Thematic Contents
Preface
Introduction: Rhetorical Visions
Rhetoric: All the Available Means of Persuasion
Understanding Rhetorical Context
Rhetor
Audience
Text
Rhetorical Analysis: A Summation
The Political Power of Rhetoric
The Rhetorical Gaze
Identification and Difference
Reading and Writing Rhetorically
Analysis and Genesis: Twin Rhetorical Acts
Form and Content: The "How" and "What" of Rhetorical Analysis
KRCs: Tools of Rhetorical Analysis
Writing Rhetorical Texts
Invention
Arrangement
Style
Memory
Delivery
Explication and Analysis
Sample Project: The Making of a Map
Familial Gazes: Reworking the Family Album
Key Rhetorical Concepts: Memory description interpretation narrative
Critical Frame
Archives and Familial Gazes
Reading Family Photographs: Moving from Description to Interpretation
What Is Seen
What Is Not Seen
Reading Contexts
Linking Family Stories with Family Photographs
Popular Images of the American Family
Memory and Interpretation
Readings
"Photograph of My Parents"
"In Our Glory: Photography and Black Life"
"The Visible Cripple (Scars and Other Disfiguring Displays Included)"
"Remembrance"
"No Snapshots in the Attic: A Granddaughter's Search for a Cherokee Past"
"La Familia"
"The Portrait"
Images: from "Written in Memory: Portraits of the Holocaust"
"Reframing the Human Family Romance"
"Looking at Them Asleep" and "I Go Back to May 1937"
Research Prompts
Key Rhetorical Concepts: context metaphor metonymy
National Gazes: Witnessing Nations
Critical Frame
Critical Intersections: Familial and National Gazes
The Rhetorical Work of Memorials
Picturing the Nation's Wounds
Reading Contexts through Metaphor and Metonymy
Remembrance: Rituals and Collective Identification
Readings
"Slave Site for a Symbol of Freedom"
"The Image as Memorial"
"Lost In the Field of Vision: Witnessing September 11"
Four Images from the FDR Archives
"The Kind of People Who Make Good Americans': Nationalism and Life's Family Ideal"
"Child of the Americas"
"The Rusted Iron Curtain"
"Champion of the World"
Research Prompts
Traveling Gazes: Shaping Mobile Identities
Key Rhetorical Concepts: identification difference
Critical Frame
Identifying Tourists and Tourism
Troubling Binaries
The Economics of Tourism
Far and Away Places
Touring Differently
Readings
Travel Poems
"Questions of Travel"
from "An Atlas of the Difficult World"
"The Photograph as an Intersection of Gazes"
Images: Travel to India
"Walking with the Kurds"
"A Small Place"
"Tourist, Stay Home"
"Los Intersticios: Recasting Moving Selves"
"The Fourth of July"
Image: Lilo and Stitch
"Where Do You Want to Go Today? Cybernetic Tourism, the Internet, and Transnationality"
"It's a Small World After All"
Research Prompts
Consumer Gazes: Made in the USA?
Key Rhetorical Concepts: the appeals logos pathos ethos
Critical Frame
Consumer Appeal
Logic, Ethics, and Emotion in Ads
Consuming College
Readings
"The Globetrotting Sneaker"
Images: Adbusters
"An Appeal to Walt Disney"
"Coca Cola and Coco Frio"
Letters: Espada/The Nike Corporation
"Student Activists Versus the Corporate University"
Images: Child Labor
Sweatshop Poems
"Manifest Destiny"
"Shirt"
"Catalogue Army"
"Maid to Order"
"New York City 1989"
On Barbie
"Butter Maiden and Maize Girl Survive Death Leap"
"Her Pocahontas"
"Oriental Barbie"
"Buddhist Barbie"
"Barbie Does Yom Kippur"
"'OM' Hinduism in American Pop Culture: Global Strategy or Sacrilegious Mistake"
Research Prompts
Documentary Gazes: Representing History
Key Rhetorical Concepts: genres kairos
Critical Frame
Understanding (the) Genre
Documentary Images at War
Interventionist and Humane Gazes
Documentary as Advocacy
Documentary Outlaws: Challenging Audience Expectations
Readings
"The Stories We Tell: Television and Humanitarian Aid"
"Conveying Atrocity in Image"
"The Tradition: Fact and Fiction"
"Moore's Lore Re-evaluates U.S. Gun Culture"
"Dream Museum: Blindness, Language and Visual Art"
"The Politics of Staring: Visual Rhetorics of Disability in Popular Photography"
"Photographs from S-21"
Research Prompts
Doing Research
Selection and Analysis of Primary Texts
Collect a Set of Primary Sources and Begin Taking Notes
Select Analytical Tools to Guide Your Analysis of These Sources
Analyze Your Primary Sources Using Established Standards
Identify a Representational Trend Based on Your Analysis of the Sources
Develop a Preliminary Argument (Claims and Reasons) About This Trend
Research and Annotation
Search Library Databases and Web Sites for Relevant Keywords or Headings
Evaluate the Quality and Relevance of Sources You Find
Genre
Subheadings and Text Features
Read and Take Notes on These Sources for Points of Contact with Your Argument
Drafting and Revision
The Annotated Bibliography
Bibliographic Entry
Annotation: Summary
Evaluation
The Research Prospectus
Situating Your Topic: Background and Content
Situating the Problem: Kairos, or Exigency
Situating Your Audience: Significance
Situating Your Authority: Ethos
The (Draft) Research Paper
Describe and Analyze Primary Sources
Introduce Secondary Sources
Refine and Complicate Your Initial Thesis
Arranging the Research Paper Draft
Finishing the Paper
Conversations Across Sections: Assignment Sequences
Private Publics/Family Albums (Familial and National Gazes)
Racing the Nation/Documenting Discrimination (National and Documentary Gazes)
Under Western Eyes (Consumer and Traveling Gazes)
Examining the Normalizing Gaze (Familial, Traveling, and Documentary Gazes)
Credits
Index