Barnet, Sylvan. 2000. A Short Guide to Writing About Art. New York: Longman.

This book equips students to analyze pictures (drawings, paintings, photographs), sculptures and architecture, and prepares them with the tools to present their ideas in effective writing. This guide covers description and analysis, writing a comparison, using peer review, documenting sources, and editing the final essay.

Bang, Molly. 2000. Picture This: How Pictures Work. New York: SeaStar Books.

Assessment Rubrics for WOVE Composing

As part of a comprehensive assessment program, ISUComm has developed programmatic rubrics that can also be used, in modified form, for assignment and overall student assessment in the communication classroom. Here are the major rubrics:

Written Communication Rubric

Resources for Assessing Communication Activities

Types of Rubrics

Analytic Rubrics

Bang, Molly. 2000. Picture This: How Pictures Work. New York: SeaStar Books.

 

Written Communication

• Motivate your readers early by engaging them with a worthwhile question, problem, or issue.
• Provide a meaningful title and subdivide your writing with reader-oriented headings.
• Organize your writing to prove a point, not just talk about a topic.
• Give details you can touch, see, hear, smell, taste—a concrete world readers can experience.

For this assignment you will document a local event and present a textual and visual record of that event to a public audience. You will initially work in a group to identify a significant communication event occurring on campus or in the local area during a one-month period. As a group you will decide how best to preserve the event through various artifacts (video, audio, interviews, published accounts, news articles, etc.). Your group will submit a formal proposal outlining the project and your methods for collecting data that will accurately represent the event.

Visual Design Principles

Here are a few ideas to keep in mind as you design a poster using the five ISUComm visual communication principles:

Pattern

In Photoshop you can drag guidelines from the ruler onto your poster. Use these to define basic text and image spaces for proportional relationships. Decide whether your dominant shapes will be rectilinear or curvilinear.

This Unit draws on class readings, discussions, and your individual and collaborative imagination

Project elements and due dates

On Thursday, December 8 Unit III teams from both sections will present proposals for a reality TV show reflecting the team’s vision of the future of romance. Teams will develop a poster and supporting documents such as a brochure or handout.