Endorsements
Instructors
"Picturing Texts is the first textbook to tackle the tasks of both analyzing and composing visuals in a way applicable to writing classrooms…Incredibly well-designed activities, interesting images, and engaging readings."
—Danielle DeVoss, Michigan State University
"Picturing Texts is the first textbook that gives adequate attention to how visual images are produced, and how students might produce them, as well as how they are consumed."
—Bronwyn T. Williams, University of Louisville
"Picturing Texts is the only writing textbook to integrate critical understanding of visual and verbal texts. It treats both visual and verbal as equally worthy of critical engagement, whether through analysis and reflection about published work or through construction of and reflection on students’ own texts."
—Susan Hilligoss, Clemson University
"Picturing Texts is precisely the textbook I have been waiting for. It allows me to use a broad range of media to introduce students to critical reading and writing, and is likely to spark useful and interesting conversations in my classroom. I’m confident that my students who use Picturing Texts will become savvy and well-informed speakers and writers because of it."
—Clark Draney, Idaho State University
"I was pleased to see this book. The choice of readings is excellent and the construct in which they are presented is timely and useful."
—Sarah Jane Servinski, Delta College
"Wow. Images are a very accessible way to talk about rhetoric. The questions for analyzing images are excellent."
—Michelle Filling, University of Delaware
"This book articulates the concepts of visual literacy in ways students can appreciate and, particularly, in ways professors who doubt the sophistication of such texts can’t ignore."
—Melissa G. Meeks, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"If you have been searching for a text that will teach persuasive rhetoric in a visually rich manner, you owe it to yourself to peruse Picturing Texts." —Kendra L. Matko, Computers and Composition
"To be sure it would help me fulfill my teaching goals, I approached Picturing Texts using the framework of the WPA Outcomes Statement for First-Year Composition…It addresses all the WPA goals remarkably well, while pushing at the boundaries of traditional composition…An important and timely resource for composition instructors today." —Paul Michael Rogers, Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy
Students
"The presentation of images has a much greater meaning than I originally thought. I am now able to more effectively present the ideas and images that make up my thoughts."
—Jody Scheffler, student, Michigan Technological University
"This book has changed the way that I view visual communication—in short, it has changed the way I see the world around me."
—Melissa Jones, student, Michigan Technological University
"There is more to composition than words."
—Denny Wagner, student, Michigan Technological University
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