Designing Texts

Introduction Meeting the Challenge of Teaching Visual Communication
Eva Brumberger and Kathryn Northcut

PART 1 Visual Thinking and Problem Solving

CHAPTER 1 How to Read Landscapes: A Method for Integrating Visual Communication in the Technical Communication Classroom
Lisa Meloncon

CHAPTER 2 Design as Problem Solving
Teena A. M. Carnegie

CHAPTER 3 Designing a Visual Argument Course in an Era of Accelerating Technological Change
Linda Driskill

CHAPTER 4 Teaching Form and Color as Emotion Triggers
Nicole Amare and Alan Manning

PART 2 Contexts for Teaching and Learning

CHAPTER 5 Teaching Visual Communication Through Community-Based Projects
Eva Brumberger

CHAPTER 6 Teaching Visual Communication Online: Methods for a Changing Classroom
Claire Lauer

CHAPTER 7 Integrating Visual and Verbal: A Framework for Teaching and Assessment
Lee Odell

PART 3 Evaluation and Assessment

CHAPTER 8 Evaluating Visual Communication
Kathryn Northcut

CHAPTER 9 A Practical Guide to Classroom Assessment in Visual Communication Design
Suguru Ishizaki

CHAPTER 10 Evaluating and Assessing Designed Documents: Assignments, Projects, Portfolios, and More
Danielle Nicole DeVoss

PART 4 Tools and Technologies

CHAPTER 11 Balancing Act: A Guide to Analyzing Context and Developing a Technologically Appropriate Approach to Visual Communication Instruction
Jennifer Sheppard

CHAPTER 12 Teaching Students to Design Rhetorically: A Low-Tech Process Approach
Charles Kostelnick

CHAPTER 13 Filling in the Gaps: Learning to Live With—and Teach With—Microsoft SmartArt
Mike Markel

PART 5 Concluding Thoughts

CHAPTER 14 Teaching Visual Rhetoric
Stephen A. Bernhardt

Appendix

Contributors

Index