Highlights
Teaches students how to use design and images in their own writing
Among the lessons covered are how to choose fonts, compose photos and charts, and use headings. Picturing Texts also teaches students to think about visuals rhetorically, as a means of communication rather than just decoration.
Forty readings about visual culture
These readings include essays, photos, paintings, poems, cartoons, stories, billboards, ads, and maps.
Some of the readings included to get students thinking about visual culture:
- David Brooks on The Sims computer game
- Michelle Citron on home movies
- Tibor Kalman on logos
- David Quammen on Dürer’s rhinoceros
Numerous imaginative writing assignments
The assignments invite students to work with words and images—to study who’s pictured on their school’s Web site and analyze how accurately it represents the student body, to illustrate an essay and then analyze the effect on the argument, to try rewriting a comic strip using only words. Such assignments will get students writing about images, writing with images, and composing images themselves.
Written and designed by a uniquely qualified team of authors
Picturing Texts is itself a model for composing with words and images.
User-tested
12 students at Michigan Technological University evaluated readings, pointed out terms and concepts needing more explanation, and suggested additional writing projects. Some of their work is included in Picturing Texts.
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