1st Edition

Designing Texts Teaching Visual Communication

By Eva Brumberger, Kathryn Northcut Copyright 2013
    340 Pages
    by Routledge

    340 Pages
    by Routledge

    'Designing Texts' is an edited collection dedicated to teaching visual communication in non-visual disciplines, with a particular focus on the fields of technical and professional communication, rhetoric, and composition.

    Introduction Meeting the Challenge of Teaching Visual Communication
    Eva Brumberger and Kathryn Northcut

    PART 1 Visual Thinking and Problem Solving

     CHAPTER 1 How to Read Landscapes: A Method for Integrating Visual Communication in the Technical Communication Classroom
    Lisa Meloncon

     CHAPTER 2 Design as Problem Solving
    Teena A. M. Carnegie

     CHAPTER 3 Designing a Visual Argument Course in an Era of Accelerating Technological Change
    Linda Driskill

     CHAPTER 4 Teaching Form and Color as Emotion Triggers
    Nicole Amare and Alan Manning

    PART 2 Contexts for Teaching and Learning

     CHAPTER 5 Teaching Visual Communication Through Community-Based Projects
    Eva Brumberger

     CHAPTER 6 Teaching Visual Communication Online: Methods for a Changing Classroom
    Claire Lauer

     CHAPTER 7 Integrating Visual and Verbal: A Framework for Teaching and Assessment
    Lee Odell

    PART 3 Evaluation and Assessment

     CHAPTER 8 Evaluating Visual Communication
    Kathryn Northcut

     CHAPTER 9 A Practical Guide to Classroom Assessment in Visual Communication Design
    Suguru Ishizaki

     CHAPTER 10 Evaluating and Assessing Designed Documents: Assignments, Projects, Portfolios, and More
    Dànielle Nicole DeVoss

    PART 4 Tools and Technologies

     CHAPTER 11 Balancing Act: A Guide to Analyzing Context and Developing a Technologically Appropriate Approach to Visual Communication Instruction
    Jennifer Sheppard

     CHAPTER 12 Teaching Students to Design Rhetorically: A Low-Tech Process Approach
    Charles Kostelnick

     CHAPTER 13 Filling in the Gaps: Learning to Live With—and Teach With—Microsoft SmartArt
    Mike Markel

    PART 5 Concluding Thoughts

     CHAPTER 14 Teaching Visual Rhetoric
    Stephen A. Bernhardt

    Appendix

    Contributors

    Index

    Biography

    Eva Brumberger