Radiant Figures: Visual Rhetorics in Everyday Administrative Contexts
Document Type
Book
ISBN
9781646422937
Publication Date
9-2021
Editors
Rachel Gramer, Logan Bearden, and Derek Mueller
Description
Radiant Figures: Visual Rhetorics in Everyday Administrative Contexts presents an approach to writing program administration that understands, accounts for, and embraces the rhetorical potential in the creation and circulation of everyday visual artifacts. This edited collection shares visuals (representations of curricula, visual metaphors for administrative work, graphics representing student demographics, etc.) created by contributors within their own contexts, for their own purposes. Each of the twelve chapters included in the collection discusses the visual-rhetorical strategies utilized in the invention of such graphics and highlights the affordances of visuals as administrative tools.
Additionally, Radiant Figures has two hallmark features. The first is a table of contents that offers seven polyvocal paths, and each chapter in the collection is featured in at least two of the paths. These paths, such as “Mapping in/as Administration” and “Visualizing Change,” emphasize the complex and overlapping nature of visual administrative work. Second, each path includes a response from an experienced administrator-scholar in writing studies. These responses draw connections, highlight promising questions, and speculate about possibilities for the update and adaptation of everyday visual artifacts. The collection presents a compelling case for the advantages of visual-rhetorical administrative strategies and offers concrete ways that readers can take up those strategies in their own contexts.
Publisher
Computers and Composition Digital Press (Utah State University Press. )
City
Denver, CO
NSUWorks Citation
Voss, Julia; Heather Noel Turner; Derek Mueller; Ryan J. Dippre; Kate Lisbeth Pantelides; Jacie Castle; Katherine Thach Musick; David S. Martins; Laurence José; Rachel Gramer; Natalie Szymanski; Jacob W. Craig; Chris Warnick; Jamie White-Farnham; Andrew Lucchesi; Logan Bearden Dr.; Louise Wetherbee Phelps; Diana George; Kathleen Blake Yancey; Amy Ferdinandt Stolley; Jason Palmeri; Heidi Estrem; and Annette Vee. Radiant Figures: Visual Rhetorics in Everyday Administrative Contexts. Denver, CO: Computers and Composition Digital Press (Utah State University Press. ).
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