Visual Rhetoric in a Digital World: A Critical Sourcebook

This book was helpful for my MA in Technical Communication. This was a required read. There were a lot of useful updated examples in the book.

expands the discipline's horizon, must read

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Note: I used the book for a graduate course on interpretation of image and text, not for the exact purpose of the authors (audience--teachers of writing). It has worked out fine, because the essays are relevant. However, be aware that most of the chapters were written when widespread access to the Internet was new. These authors explore interesting aspects of "the digital world," but this has seen a great deal of change and our students are more digital-savvy than the students these authors imagined in their writing. Also, for a book on visual rhetoric, there are few images.

This book provides a combination of practical considerations and theoretical essays from classic scholars within the visual field, like Roland Barthes. The book is packed with good visual examples such as photos and comic strips, great to use as examples in teaching.The book looks at the traditional division and historical rivalry between image and text, and looks at different ways images can be used for argumentation and rhetoric use, for example in language classes. This is a great approach for a media-teacher in a cross-curricular learning environment, where the division between textual and visual subjects is bridged.