Guidelines for Essay #2 – Visual Analysis Essay

Your next major essay in this course will be a visual analysis essay. In this essay, you will be expected to apply the concepts covered in Units 1-4 as you analyze an image to show some of its larger meanings. This includes knowledge of the writing process, rhetorical situation, formal register, essay structure, and visual […]

Advertisement Visual analysis

For your first major assignment, you’ll select a visual text (i.e. an advertisement, a promotional poster, etc.) for a product, service, or organization connected to your field or projected profession and write a thesis-driven evaluative argument in which you examine the rhetorical strategies of the site. For example, if you’re a pre-pharmacy major, you might […]

Design an infographic that uses visual and textual rhetorical

Activity 2: Infographic—.pdf format. Individual. Design an infographic that uses visual and textual rhetorical techniques to educate employees about the social issues that inform the request for a dedicated nursing mother’s room and a gender-inclusive bathroom option. Think of this infographic as a tool to answer questions about these issues. General Criteria for Grading Focus/Purpose: […]

Analysis of Perceptual Visual Elements

In a 2-3-page APA formatted paper with an additional reference page (template here), analyze the strategic use of perceptual visual communication: Analyze how specific semiotic visuals in your chosen image affect different cultural perceptions (age, ethnicity, social group, etc.). Describe how each culture’s cognitive memories and experiences may affect how they perceive this image. Explain […]

Visual Analysis of Rigaud’s, Portrait of Louis XIV

Please write four pages of pure visual analysis. This essay will be the product of your own looking and analysis, thus will require no research and no citation of sources. When writing please consider the following Medium; techniques, size. How do these affect the style? Scale of figures relative to the total object. Does this […]