the big visual – 10%

For this assignment, you will work with a partner to create a visual glossary that illustrates the terms you’ve learned in class that you think are worth remembering. The terms that will help you and others think more critically about argument and communication – about rhetoric. Think about it like this: You and your partner are creating a database of resources — a sort of Cliff’sNotes — for what students new to argument need to know to cram for a test on argument. You know what do you want them to remember and consider in their future communication practices that is vitally important.

Your team will define and provide an illustrated example of a minimum of ten terms and/or concepts you’ve learned from the course so far. Some of the terms are slippery. They have multiple meanings. Choose the meaning most important for your audience. Remember, your audience has little experience with any of the terms and concepts you have learned. Your job is to get the point across clearly. Make sure you write well-researched and thought-out definitions (for help writing definitions check out Purdue Owl.

Your examples should be well-integrated and illustrative of the concepts you’re explaining. I understand that writing definitions from scratch is difficult so if you have to cut and paste a definition because it can’t be defined any better that’s fine. But you have to cite the source and explain clearly why you choose this definition. DO not directly cite more than five definitions. The rest should be paraphrases. I want you to put things in your own words. Be sure to choose appropriate pictures for the terms you define.
what you will get out of the task

  • An upping of your digital knowledge of Comic Life, PowerPoint, or Adobe Spark, or Microsoft Word. NO TEMPLATES!
  • An upping of your design skills (CRAP) and construction of visual documents.
  • A solidification of the terms and concepts we’ve covered so far – makes you smarter.
    layout and expectations

I expect your document to be visually informative and follow the principles of design we have learned in class. Your works cited (in-text and end-text) should use MLA and be done correctly. The design you create should be your own-no templates!

Note***–> these terms count as one entry/concept: CRAP (either version) & CASC.

  • Title Page
  • Introduction
    This is where you describe the purpose of the glossary (500- 900 words). Why did you choose these terms (i.e. why are they important)? What is this document for? What will a reader find in this document?
  • Visual glossary (10 terms or concepts broken into at least two categories/sections – you’ll have different sections of the document).
    This is where your visual glossary goes. Each entry should have the following items:
    a. Term and definition of term.
    b. Picture or example representing term.
    c. Explanation of why term is important and how picture represents term (2-4 sentences).
    d. Works cited in MLA format (i.e. where’d you get the visual image and where did you get your definition or who is it inspired by?)
    Index (tells a reader the pages the terms and other important sections are located).

Your Visual Glossary will be evaluated using this rubric: Visual Glossary Rubric.