ou will prepare a 3-4-page paper that consists of an analysis of the rhetorical features of a specific visual-verbal communicative display that you have personally experienced since the start of this course. The only requirement for artifact selection is that it appears in two-dimensional form and contains some important visual features. Possible artifacts include but are not limited to the following: a photograph, a magazine advertisement, a web page, a painting, a poster, a sketch, a map. Exclusively verbal artifacts (e.g., a poem or short story) may be chosen only if you compare them with predominantly visual artifacts on the same subject. For example, you might compare a photograph of an event with a verbal account or contrast a painting with a poem on the same subject.
Your analysis should include (1) a brief description of the visual-verbal artifact in its original context (e.g., what it is, where you encountered it, its important visual and verbal features); (2) a clear conceptual exposition that defines/explains the concept or concepts you are using to guide your analysis of the described visual-verbal artifact as rhetoric; (3) your analysis of the verbal-visual artifact in terms of how well your selected concept or concepts disclose the artifact’s influence on viewers’ and readers’ attitudes, beliefs, values, or actions (i.e., explain how well the concept functioned in helping you understand the “rhetoric” of the visual-verbal display with specific examples from the artifact); and (4) your conclusions about what your analysis suggests concerning the rhetorical features of visual-verbal displays or the utility of the concept you were using to guide your analysis. Please provide a copy of your artifact.