Multimodal argumentation and visual rhetoric encompass an emergent field that explores how diverse communicative modes—including images, diagrams and other visual representations—contribute to the ...

Laurie Gries, assistant professor of communication at the University of Colorado Boulder, has won two awards for her 2015 book Still Life with Rhetoric: A New Materialist Approach for Visual Rhetorics ...

Update 2/4/16: Gries has also been awarded the 2016 CCCC Research Impact Award for Still Life with Rhetoric. This award honors an empirical research publication that most advances the mission of CCCC ...

It’s become something of a Twitter joke. A new gadget appears, or a dramatic development takes place on the world stage, and the cry goes up: But what does it mean for journalism? I’m guilty of it ...

Yes, it has pictures. Yes, it is in the format of what you might call a “comic book—“ or wait, a “graphic novel.” Many students read graphic novels in their Literature or Language Composition classes.

Rhetoric has been broadly defined as the art of persuasion. Unfortunately, in the last two centuries, rhetoric has suffered a rather bad reputation because it has been deliberately overused to mislead ...

Advertising is an important means by which economic enterprises communicate with both their current and potential customers. A decades-old question is how effective it can be in terms of persuasion.

The same impulses that energized abolition and labor activism in the 1830s and 1840s produced a set of reformers in subsequent decades more interested in inward or individually oriented ideas, often ...

Reproductive Justice; Rhetoric of Vasectomy; Discourses of Teenage Pregnancy and Motherhood; Visual Rhetoric; Embodied Rhetoric & Rhetoric of the Body; Feminist Theory and Pedagogy; Professional ...

Computer processing has revolutionised the social sciences, enabling the collection and processing of vast quantities of data. Amid the consequent information glut, effective presentation of data is ...