From Understanding Rhetoric, pg. 75
Discussion Board #3: Understanding Rhetoric
In Week Three, we will investigate how comic books transform mundane topics like...uh...rhetoric...into textbooks that bring topics to life. Understanding Rhetoric: A Graphic Guide to Writing is perhaps the first textbook devoted specifically to introductory rhetorical study in graphic form.
However, comics have been used in a number of ways in higher education, as this blog from the National Association of Scholars addresses.
For the third discussion, begin by addressing the following questions:
However, comics have been used in a number of ways in higher education, as this blog from the National Association of Scholars addresses.
For the third discussion, begin by addressing the following questions:
- In what specific ways does Understanding Rhetoric demonstrate the concepts in McCloud's theory?
- Select one passage or section (a few pages) and spend time really studying that section. Indicate which section you selected in your post. Then working ONLY with McClouds concepts in Chapters Three and Four, analyze HOW that section of the text works to make meaning.
- Both Marbles and Understanding Rhetoric work to help the reader understand a particular concept (bi-polar disorder in the former and rhetoric in the latter). Find an internet resource geared at a similar audience (college freshmen studying Comp I or Introduction to Writing/Rhetoric) one one of the topics addressed in Understanding Rhetoric (arguments, research, writing process, etc.). What does Understanding Rhetoric leave out that the other resource covers? Which do you believe covers the topic more effectively for the given audience?