Sullivan, Patricia: EServer TC Library

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Institutional Critique: A Rhetorical Methodology for Change

We offer institutional critique as an activist methodology for changing institutions. Since institutions are rhetorical entities, rhetoric can be deployed to change them. In its effort to counter oppressive institutional structures, the field of rhetoric and com-position has focused its attention chiefly on the composition classroom, on the de-partment of English, and on disciplinary forms of critique. Our focus shifts the scene of action and argument to professional writing and to public discourse, using spatial methods adapted from postmodern geography and critical theory.

Porter, James E., Patricia Sullivan, Stuart Blythe, Jeffrey T. Grabill and Libby Miles. CCC (2000). Articles>Rhetoric>Theory

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Practicing Safe Visual Rhetoric on the Web

This essay examines when and why a 'safe' approach to visual design for web pages is attractive to writers and writing teachers. It considers typical reasons for choosing a 'safe' approach to designing the visual dimensions of web pages, traditional sources in print graphics and writing for safe advice about visual design, and design challenges posed by issues of a web design's stability and navigation. The essay then turns to the fact that the additional media included in a web site bring more design traditions into consideration. It discusses the differing concerns and aims that issue from visual design traditions that focus on prose graphics versus those that focus on theatrical graphics. Keeping these differences in mind, the essay ends with a consideration of the forces shaping visual rhetoric on the web.

Sullivan, Patricia. Science Direct. Articles>Web Design>Rhetoric>Visual Rhetoric

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Visual Rhetoric in a Technological Age

This course participates in constructing visual rhetoric for composition studies and computers and composition studies. There are few models for the graduate study of visual rhetoric, and certainly there are not canonical issues or figures in this area. Instead there is the growing realizing that written discourse increasingly involves visual dimensions that are influenced (and sometime controlled) by the composer(s). Nowhere is this understanding more concretely rendered than in areas that depend on technology. In a real sense, technology has pushed us to see visual dimensions of meaning as falling under our influence. Of course, that influence can only be exercised via know-how.

Sullivan, Patricia. Purdue University. Academic>Courses>Rhetoric>Visual Rhetoric