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Visual Rhetoric 6.1: Book Production Project

Today’s Plan: Introduce Book Project Work of Art: “Judging a Book by Its Cover” Group Formation Homework Book Production Project Today we begin our second project of the semester. It is my goal that we finish this project over Spring … Continue reading

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Advanced Composition 5.2: Freire and Lorde (Praxis as Poetry?)

Today’s plan: Discuss Readings Review Paper Assignment / Questions Homework

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Visual Rhetoric 5.2: Poster Reflection and Remix Project

Today’s plan: Poster Presentation Remix Assignment Poster Presentation Let’s take some time to talk about your projects. Remix Assignment There is one final component to Project One, and that is that I would like you to design a “remix” of … Continue reading

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One Day Crash Course: Visual Rhetoric and Presidential Campaign Websites

Today’s Plan: Quick Overview of Visual Rhetoric (with an eye toward web interfaces) (12 minutes) Flash View at Presidential Campaign Posters (8 minutes) Looking at Presidential Campaign Posters (25 minutes) Walkaway (5 minutes) A Quick Introduction to (Visual) Rhetoric Today’s … Continue reading

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Visual Rhetoric Week 3 (Friday): Reviewing Project One Progress

Today’s plan: Review homework from last week Generate rubric for project 2 Discuss reflection paper Work time

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Visual Rhetoric Week 2 (Friday): Gries, Presidential Posters, and Photoshop

Today’s plan Quick review of Gries Assignment One: Presidential Poster Obama Hope materials and processes Vector images and Adobe Illustrator Photoshop Friday (two projects)

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Advanced Composition 2.2: Cicero and Faulty Foundations

Today’s plan: Lecture on Cicero Questions about Curiosity

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Visual Rhetoric 2.2: Photoshop Workshop #2

Today’s plan: Gries Reading Highlights Photoshop Tutorial #1: Working with layers Photoshop Tutorial #2: Recreating Obama Hope Homework

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Advanced Composition 2.1: Isocrates, Pragmatism, and “State” Education

Today’s plan Set up Twitter accounts and some follows Share a blog post or two Discuss Isocrates (Question: tell me about what kind of math courses you have taken) Homework

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Visual Rhetoric 2.1: Gries, Obama Hope, and the Presidential Poster Assignment

Today’s plan: Project One Description Recipe Assignment (in groups, on Canvas) Homework: Reading and Presidential Poster Research Assignment

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