Visuals:
Visuals (be they paintings, films, comic books, or television narratives) were to be studied in the same way as literary texts, as subject of close analysis–a use of the visual that continues throughout the history of writing instruction.
Design:
To talk of literacy instruction in terms of design means to ask writers to draw on available knowledge and, at the same time, transform that knowledge/those forms as we redesign.
Visual Composition:
For students who have grown up in a technology-saturated and an image-rich culture, questions of communication and composition absolutely will include the visual, not as attended to the verbal but as complex communication intricately related to the world around them.
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