#14565
This course will teach you to * identify and discuss principles of reading comprehension, cognitive psychology, human factors, and graphic design that apply to technical documents * analyze and evaluate the design of existing documents and recommend appropriate revisions * design and test documents for maximum usability
Dragga, Sam. Texas Tech University (2002). Academic>Courses>Document Design>Visual Rhetoric
#28954
English 5369 Topics and Genres in Rhetoric and Composition: Visual Rhetoric2007
This interdisciplinary course focuses on studying and researching the role of rhetoric in the development of visual elements in texts. Students will be asked to both analyze and design visual texts, to analyze and critique ways in which visual rhetoric is defined, and to conduct primary research on an element of visual rhetoric.
Garza, Susan Loudermilk. Texas A and M University (2007). Academic>Courses>Rhetoric>Visual Rhetoric
#14050
With special attention to the rhetor-audience relationship, the course studies history and practice of modern rhetorical theory. The main idea is that you learn the classical elements of rhetoric in some detail and then practice applying them to contemporary texts, whether they are the ones you are writing or analyzing. I think you should use this course so you can better understand not only rhetoric, but other areas of study that you are interested in, whether it be technology, popular culture, or a discipline outside of English. Make this course work for you.
Applen, J.D. University of Central Florida. Academic>Courses>Theory>Rhetoric
#22345
Oral Presentations in Professional Settings
This course is designed to help you improve your oral presentation skills and strengthen your ability to make a good argument and communicate effectively to an audience. You will gain these skills by studying rhetorical principles, analyzing other presentations, and practicing your own speaking.
Ratliff, Clancy. University of Minnesota (2004). Academic>Courses>Presentations>Rhetoric
#20914
Rhetoric and Community Service
In this course, you will extend your critical and rhetorical skills beyond the classroom and the library into the world of community action and service by working or volunteering at least two hours a week at a local nonprofit community service agency or group (dealing, for example, with homeless outreach, adult literacy, tutoring inner-city children, elder care, AIDS support, drug rehabilitation, domestic violence, environmental issues, or civil rights issues). Up to one hour a week on-site may be used to gather information for assignmen
Locker, Kitty O. Ohio State University, The. Academic>Courses>Graduate>Rhetoric
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Rhetoric and Technical Communication
The Greek word for persuasion derives from the Greek verb 'to believe' Therefore, we can see that rhetoric may be argumentative but also expository (modes of discourse that seek to win acceptance of information or explanation). This understanding is critical for those of us who seek to accommodate technology or science to a user.
Coppola, Nancy W. New Jersey Institute of Technology. Academic>Courses>Graduate>Rhetoric
#24005
The primary aim of Writing 205/Writing Studio 2 is to help you become more adept at meeting the writing demands of the university. In your earlier work in writing courses, you may have focused on reflection or understanding what you have come to know through experience and observation.
Murray, Joddy. Morrismurray.net (2001). Academic>Courses>Writing>Rhetoric
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Both spatial and visual rhetorics attend to issues of boundaries. From the structure of our classroom spaces to the margins of the page, rhetoric and compositionist are investigating the ways spatial and visual experiences are impacting our work as teachers and scholars.
Kimme Hea, Amy C. University of Arizona (2003). Academic>Courses>Visual Rhetoric
#14263
Studies in Reading Theory and Document Design
This course will cover how reading theory interacts with a rhetoric of graphics to influence the way that documents are designed for maximum effect on the audience.
Zachry, Mark. Utah State University (2002). Academic>Courses>Graduate>Rhetoric
#25677
Technology, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication
This course offers students in various disciplines a critical view of the technologies now shaping workplace communication and our society as a whole. Using rhetorical theories of technology, we will examine the historical roots of communication technology and explore a number of economic and ethical issues spawned by the computer revolution. Students will gain a deep understanding of how technology impacts the decisions of technical communicators in an increasingly electronic workplace.
Sauer, Geoffrey. Iowa State University (2005). Academic>Courses>Technology>Rhetoric
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Theoretical Dimensions of Technical Communication
This graduate course studies theoretical constructs and issues that inform all technical communication. Inherently a multi-disciplinary activity, tech comm draws on theories from fields as different as rhetoric and science, psychology and philosophy, sociology and linguistics. This term we will focus specifically on rhetoric, on the relationships between author, text and reader, and on philosophies of science and language. The purpose of this seminar is to explore relevant theories in sufficient depth and detail to do justice to their complexity, and, at the same time to examine their applicability to technical communication. Students will be expected to comprehend and challenge these theories on their own terms as well as to understand their value for the interpretation and transfer of technical information. Such understanding is crucial to intelligent decisions in professional practice; it allows the technical communicator to look beyond surface issues and see the essential problems and possible solutions. Theoretical knowledge of the field distinguishes the professional from the practitioner.
Sauer, Geoffrey. University of Washington-Seattle (2002). Academic>Courses>Graduate>Rhetoric
#25676
Theory and Research in Professional Communication
This graduate course will study theoretical constructs and issues that inform workplace professional communication. Inherently a multi-disciplinary activity, professional comm-unication draws on theories from fields as different as rhetoric and science, psychology and philosophy, sociology and linguistics. This term we will focus specifically on rhetoric, on the relationships between author, text and reader, and on philosophies of science and language as they apply to workplace practice.
Sauer, Geoffrey. Iowa State University (2005). Academic>Courses>Rhetoric
#22811
This course focuses on articulating rhetorical opportunities present in the visual turn; the role of perceptual processes, time, movement, and memory in the act of seeing; the interanimation of the verbal and the visual in representation; the circumstances of visual culture and art; visual communication in print and on the Web; and identification as a visual/rhetorical process. Is there potential to create critical verbo-visual literacy? The course explores what such definitions of literacy mean for communication, argumentation, persuasion and narration.
Salvo, Michael J. Purdue University (2004). Academic>Courses>Graduate>Visual Rhetoric
#19197
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
#22227
Visual Texts and Technologies: Situating the Visual in Technoculture
In Western culture, we now understand that visual representations influence our thinking, but we don’t always fully comprehend the extent of that influence, nor do we understand precisely how that influence is exercised. In this course, we will gain a fuller understanding of the influence of the visual on meaning, by thinking with, about, and through the visual.
Kitalong, Karla Saari. University of Central Florida. Academic>Courses>Visual Rhetoric
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Writing and Designing for the Web (573G)
This class focuses on effective writing and design for online environments--with particular emphasis on the Web. While grounded in relevant theory, this course has a workshop format, with an emphasis on hands-on, collaborative learning.
Krause, Tim. Metropolitan State University (2005). Academic>Courses>Web Design>Visual Rhetoric
#14341
Professional writers are primarily concerned with the effective delivery of information to specific audiences, whether through a paper medium (such as a brochure or memo) or an electronic medium (such as a web site). A wide variety of factors impact this delivery: an understanding of audience (both multiple and widely differing), the organization of information, readability, the ability to navigate a document, ease of use, placement and use of visuals/graphics, text, etc. This course will teach you to think about the overall design of a web site, about how audiences use and read web pages, about effective writing styles for the web, and about a host of other issues that address the delivery of information.
L'Eplattenier, Barbara. University of Arkansas-Little Rock (2002). Academic>Courses>Rhetoric
#22346
Writing to Inform, Convince, and Persuade
This course introduces the writing process and the types of academic writing you may be expected to complete in your college career such as research papers, argumentative papers, and literature reviews. The course is designed to help you develop a clear thesis in a written paper and support that thesis with appropriate sources. Time will be spent discussing rhetorical elements in writing such as audience, purpose, and argumentative structure. In addition, you will practice steps in the writing process such as invention, research, organization, drafting, revision, and editing. Your assignments will report, synthesize, and draw conclusions regarding the significance of what you read. Assignments may include 1) summary or abstract; 2) rhetorical analysis; (3) short thesis paper; (4) prospectus; (5) evaluation or review of literature; (6) research paper. Some courses are taught in a computer classroom and some in a traditional classroom.
Ratliff, Clancy. University of Minnesota (2003). Academic>Courses>Writing>Rhetoric
#32152
Theories of Rhetoric and Composition
English 470 will explore some of the major theories of rhetoric and writing which shape the ways that we use language in social, educational, political, and professional situations. We will examine various definitions of rhetoric, key rhetorical concepts and debates, theories of writing, the impact of new technologies on rhetoric and writing, and philosophical questions, among others. Our trajectory for the course can be mapped across several different heuristics. We can say that we will begin with oral traditions of rhetoric, move to written traditions, and then to electric or online instantiations of rhetoric. Another way to think about the structure of the course is philosophically: we start with ancient concepts of language and thought, then move to modernist conceptions, and finish with postmodern ideas about the place of rhetoric in the world. While we won't be able to cover every historical period and every rhetorical concept, you should leave the class with an understanding of what rhetoric is, when, where, and how it can be deployed, and why rhetoric is important. The ultimate goal of the course is for students to understand rhetoric as a productive art that offers transformative possibilities.
Bay, Jennifer. Purdue University (2004). Academic>Courses>Writing>Rhetoric
#32773
Whether it's gestures in an oral conversation, type on a page, or flickering images on a screen, each medium of communication includes visual elements. Such elements long have been recognized as rhetorically significant, but the cultural proliferation of digital technologies has heightened interest in the visual dimension of rhetoric. As both consumers and producers, we engage daily with a variety of textual and graphical elements. Text and Image will encourage critical consideration of such encounters. We will examine the affordances and constraints of various forms from the perspectives of both reception and production. Our course assignments will ask you to respond to existing theories and examine them in praxis by producing a variety of image/text artifacts.
Turnley, Melinda. DePaul University (2008). Academic>Courses>Visual Rhetoric
