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Item Applying What I've Learned in TWC: Themes from Visual Rhetoric, Writing with Digital Technologies, International Communication, and Usability(2018-05) Berger, AlexThis project, which includes both a website created using HTML and this accompanying report, applies concepts and themes taken from four courses from the Technical Writing & Communication (TWC) coursework at the University of Minnesota. The key focal areas include rhetorical analysis, design analysis, user testing, and cultural analysis. I developed a website that applies the above concepts while simultaneously meeting the needs of a local nonprofit arts organization, Woodbury Community Theatre. How the website addresses the themes referenced above is the main focus of this report. The purpose of this project was to think critically about and then apply salient moments from my four years at the University.Item The rhetorical potential of images in popular accounts of historical events.(2010-11) Scruton, William ChristopherIn The Rhetorical Potential of Images in Popular Accounts of Historical Events, I develop a methodological toolkit for analyzing persuasive visuals and use those lenses—technological, perceptual, semantic/semiotic, societal pragmatic, and inferential—to evaluate a multimodal narrative in Matthew Paris's thirteenthcentury Chronica Majora. Focusing on the sententious role of the chronicling narrative form and the moralizing purpose of the exemplars that most influenced Matthew's style, I argue that Matthew's practice of image-construction was an historiographic—not decorative—act and explore the ways in which the layout, organization, and illustration of Chronica Majora produced a mnemonic and epistemic machine—a purposeful, rhetorical encyclopedia of human experience and a guide to right behavior. Within this grounded framework, I address questions of broader import, including the cognitive functions of narrative form, the influence of socialization and enculturation in shaping the semiotic and rhetorical vernaculars of discourse communities, and the function of communicative artifacts as interfaces connecting the material domain with the intellectual lifeworlds of the producers and interpreters of communicative artifacts.Item The Youth and AIDS Projects Style Guide(The Youth and AIDS Projects, 2020-05) Department of Writing Studies; Students enrolled in WRIT 3671; Youth and AIDS ProjectsStudents in WRIT 3671: "Visual Rhetoric and Document Design" partnered with The Youth and AIDS Projects, a Minneapolis-based nonprofit, to create a style guide for the organization.