Instructor Resource Center

Welcome to ISUComm's Instructor Resource Center. Use the following list of options to search for specific types of assignments, activities, assessment rubrics, and resources. Simply click on any of the listed topics to select. Hold the CTRL (PC) or CMD (Mac) key while clicking to select multiple options. Then press submit.

Oral Communication

The central journal for speech pedagogy is the Communication Teacher published by the National Communication Association.

General Visual Communication

Faigley, Lester. “Material Literacy and Visual Design.” Rhetorical Bodies. Ed. Jack Selzer and Sharon Crowley. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999. 171-201.

George, Diana. “From Analysis to Teaching: Visual Communication in the Teaching of Writing.” College Composition and Communication 54.1 (2002): 11–39.

Visual Communication Pedagogy

Lester, Paul M. “Syntactic Theory of Visual Communication, Part One.” 1996. http://commfaculty.fullerton.edu/lester/writings/viscomtheory.html

Moriarty, Sandra. “Visual Communication as a Primary System.” Journal of Visual Literacy 14:2 (1994): 11–21. http://spot.colorado.edu/~moriarts/primelang.html

Visual Communication Assessment

Blakesley, David. “Visual Rhetoric.” Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. http://www.sla.purdue.edu/people/engl/dblakesley/visual/.

Blakesley, David, and Collin Brookes. "Introduction: Notes on Visual Rhetoric." Enculturation. Vol. 3, No. 2, Fall 2001. http://enculturation.gmu.edu/3_2/introduction.html.

Electronic Communication

Anson, Chris. "Distant Voices: Teaching and Writing in a Culture of Technology." College English 61.3 (1999): 261–80.

Arn, Joseph V., Rebecca Gatlin, and William Kordsmeier. "Multimedia Copyright Laws and Guidelines: Take the Test." Business Communication Quarterly 61.4 (1998): 32–39.

Baron, Naomi S. Alphabet to Email: How Written English Evolved and Where It's Heading. New York: Routledge, 2000.