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Visual Rhetoric 13.1: Making Charts and Graphs

Posted on April 5, 2016 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Today’s Plan: Calendar Review Readings Basic Elements of Visual Rhetoric Playing with .csv files and Piktochart

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Visual Rhetoric 12 (Friday): Piktochart

Posted on April 1, 2016 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Today’s Plan: Make-up Presentations Review Assignments 3 and 4 Make Piktochart.com accounts Follow the Intro .pdf Homework

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Advanced Comp 12.2: Using Quotations

Posted on March 31, 2016 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Today’s plan: Review Timeline and Expectations Using Quotations Homework

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Advanced Composition 12.1: Summarizing Research

Posted on March 29, 2016 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Today’s Plan: A few heuristics Summarize an article Homework

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Visual Rhetoric 12.1: Using Piktochart

Posted on March 29, 2016 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Today’s Plan: Make Piktochart.com accounts Follow the Intro .pdf Homework

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Advanced Composition 11.2: Research Tools

Posted on March 24, 2016 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Today’s Plan: Review Proposal Assignment Proposal Conference Sign Up Research Tools Canvas Assignment Homework Proposal Revisited Your paper proposals are due next Tuesday, March 29th. The proposals should look like this: A 2 page (double-spaced) introduction that lays out the … Continue reading →

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Visual Rhetoric 11.2: Infographic Project

Posted on March 24, 2016 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Today’s Plan: Finish Book Production Presentations Introduce Infographic Project Introduce (Briefly) the Final Project Homework Infographic Project For our third project, we will be creating infographics. In preparation for today’s class, I had you read two short articles, “What is … Continue reading →

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Advanced Composition 11.1: Working with Booth

Posted on March 22, 2016 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Today’s plan: Working with Booth Developing a paper proposal Working with Booth Over the break I asked you to read an excerpt from Wayne Booth’s The Craft of Research. The purpose of the excerpt was to help us begin to … Continue reading →

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Visual Rhetoric Week 9 (Friday): Book Production Presentation

Posted on March 11, 2016 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Today’s Plan : Book Cover and Jacket Book Production Presentation Book Production Project Rubric Garr Reynolds and Presentation Zen Design Canvas assignment: Make a Zen Presentation Hand back posters Work Time Homework Book Cover and Jacket Today I wanted to … Continue reading →

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Visual Rhetoric 9.2: Book Production Presentation

Posted on March 10, 2016 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Today’s plan: Book Production Presentation Details Presentation Zen Guidelines Book Production Presentation As I mentioned last class, the final component of our second project is to develop a presentation that “pitches” your book design. The hypothetical scenario here is that … Continue reading →

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