Description
Book Synopsis''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.
Table of ContentsIntroduction 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
