Section: Module 3: Lesson 2: Image Analysis: What You See | Writing for Health Sciences | NextGenU.org
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Student Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this lesson, you will be able to:
- Define and interpret the key concepts and elements of visual rhetoric and use them to interpret visual information.
- Interpret images differently based on cultural considerations and choose digital and visual media according to the rhetorical situation and cultural context.
- Make informed decisions about intellectual property issues regarding images and interpret images through the conceptual lens of hybridity in different rhetorical and cultural contexts.
- Analyze and reflect on images using the language of visual rhetoric, determining variations in genre conventions and organizational patterns of various texts.
- Develop a writing project through multiple drafts, employing drafting strategies, and applying aspects of visual rhetoric to a writing project, participate in collaborative and social aspects of writing processes, and give and act on productive feedback.
- Apply editing strategies to highlight the features of visual rhetoric and eliminate wordiness and overused modifiers.
- Compare written work with evaluation criteria, examine and apply essential techniques in film and movies to personal rhetorical and cultural contexts, and create a multimodal work that incorporates visual rhetorical methods.
- Articulate the use of images in light of their rhetorical context and elements and analyze them rhetorically both in and out of academic settings.
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Required Learning Resources and Activities
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Instructions:
Read the questions carefully. Make sure you understand what the question is asking.
Gather your thoughts. What do you know about the topic of the question? What are your thoughts and opinions on the matter?
Write a brief outline of your response. This will help you to organize your thoughts and make sure you cover all of the important points.
Write your response. Be sure to answer the question directly and provide evidence to support your claims.
Proofread your response. Make sure there are no errors in grammar or spelling.
Be open to feedback. Ask your classmates for feedback on your responses. This will help you to improve your writing skills and learn from your mistakes.
Here are some additional tips for answering discussion questions:
Be clear and concise. Your response should be easy to understand and follow.
Use evidence to support your claims. This could include quotes from the text, statistics, or your own personal experiences.
Be respectful of other people's opinions. Even if you disagree with someone, you can still be respectful of their point of view.
Questions
- Do you consider Ludy’s photographs of design elements created in Second Life to be her own work or the work of another person? Explain your response.
- In what ways is Ludy’s Second Life photography practice “natural?” In what ways is it digital, artificial, or manipulated? How do those descriptions or designations affect the way you see, reflect on, or feel about her work?
- Ludy refers to the “artifacts” she finds in her photographic images, such as the radiant light from the top of the floral arrangement creating a pseudo-star. Do you consider such “artifacts” of artistic interest, or do you believe they are flaws that represent byproducts of one’s digital limitations? Explain your response.
- In what ways is the experience of viewing, reflecting on, and discoursing about images similar to the Second Life experience? In what ways is it different?
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Students mustViewStart discussions: 1
Instructions:
Read the questions carefully. Make sure you understand what the question is asking.
Gather your thoughts. What do you know about the topic of the question? What are your thoughts and opinions on the matter?
Write a brief outline of your response. This will help you to organize your thoughts and make sure you cover all of the important points.
Write your response. Be sure to answer the question directly and provide evidence to support your claims.
Proofread your response. Make sure there are no errors in grammar or spelling.
Be open to feedback. Ask your classmates for feedback on your responses. This will help you to improve your writing skills and learn from your mistakes.
Here are some additional tips for answering discussion questions:
Be clear and concise. Your response should be easy to understand and follow.
Use evidence to support your claims. This could include quotes from the text, statistics, or your own personal experiences.
Be respectful of other people's opinions. Even if you disagree with someone, you can still be respectful of their point of view.
Questions
- In which of the three types of writing about art—reflecting, analyzing, persuading— is the student author engaging? How do you know?
- Identify some of the descriptive language specific to visuals that Leo Davis uses when talking about the painting. How does this language enhance the paper and contribute to the discussion?
- From the essay, can you determine Davis’s opinion regarding homosexuality? Why might this tone be or not be a significant part of the rhetorical situation?
- What details does the student author include about the painter? Is any information about the painter excluded that you think would be relevant?
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IMPORTANT
Make sure to carefully read and follow the instructions while completing the tasks. Once you have finished activities 17.5 and 17.6, proceed to section 17.7 Evaluation: Relationship Between Analysis and Image. This section provides rubric tools for self-evaluation and evaluating the work of your classmates. After completing the evaluation, move on to section 17.8 Spotlight on …Video and Film, where you will encounter new challenges to showcase your content. Finally, go to section 17.9 Portfolio: Interplay Between Text and Image to find useful tools, recommendations, and reflections for creating your portfolio. Afterward, move on to the next Module.
Now, let's get started! Using the following template, share your tasks, taking into account the order of the different sections detailed chronologically.
Summary of Assignment: Writing Persuasively About an Image
Public works projects such as stadiums or convention centers, private developments such as condominiums and shopping centers, and online spaces such as websites and social media platforms all commission artists to create exclusive works for display. These works are intended to reflect the vision of the artist as well as to promote the brand or mission of the space. Imagine that you have been asked to analyze an artist’s work to determine whether the artist should contribute to the development of a local space that you select. Select the work of an artist, either Sara Ludy or another artist whose work is familiar to you or whose work you would like to learn more about. See Further Resources at the end of this chapter for suggested museums to visit in person or online. You can choose from historical figures or living artists. You can even choose an artist who illustrated a graphic novel you have read. Once you have chosen an artist and an image created by that artist, identify the aspects of the work you wish to assess, and support your analysis with technical descriptions of the image. Then, explain why you reached your decision about the artist’s contribution to the selected space.
The parts in this section will take you through the development of a sample essay, using the example of American sculptor James Earle Fraser’s (1876–1953) Equestrian Statue of Theodore Roosevelt. As you follow along in this process, consider how it applies to your topic. Think of the process as divided into these six steps:
Identify the rhetorical situation
Outline the elements you intend to analyze
Write an introduction in which you frame the image and the context in which you intend to discuss it
As you draft, or before you draft the body of the essay, write topic sentences to identify the focus of each paragraph on a specific technical or contextual aspect of the image
Build your paragraphs by describing the relevant elements
Conclude by suggesting directions to consider in the future
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