Chapter 12: Writing About the Visual
Learning Objectives
After reading this chapter, students will be able to:
- Identify the elements of a range of visual media, including paintings, advertisements, sculpture, and film
- Apply their understanding of visual elements to analyze and evaluate visual texts
- Write descriptive summaries of visual texts
- Write rhetorical analyses of visual texts
- Support interpretive arguments about visual texts using formalist elements and critical and rhetorical theories
Continue Reading: 12.1 Introduction: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
