Personal Reflection On Visual Rhetorics

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The purpose of this memo is to reflect on and contemplate my learning experiences this semester. I am classified as a junior and am majoring in psychology and minoring in legal studies. Rhetorical Criticism was one of the elective options to fulfill the communication requirement for my legal studies program. I chose to enroll in this course, instead of the other elective choices, with the intention of improving my ability to analyze rhetorical strategies and develop persuasion techniques. Participation The two participation activities I found most useful were the reading analytically activity involving the evaluation of the Gettysburg excerpt and the VASES activity regarding City Council. I found the reading analytically activity to be valuable because the activity prepared me to properly separate elements of …show more content…

Furthermore, the caption and background were intended to stimulate a deeper consideration of the subject matter. The caption in this visual rhetoric campaign was clever because it approached the subject of online predators by using references to computers in general and the keyboard in the background. This piece of visual rhetoric encountered challenges, such as lack of cultural history and inattention, that I believe were well combatted by the image. The campaign can be evaluated by an aesthetic, truth, and ethical standard, which develops the interpretation of the overall message. This Copia urged me to recognize how different rhetorical strategies were interacting or overlapping to form my perception of the ad. In addition, this Copia demonstrated the implications of captions on an image and the impact of visual rhetoric. From this Copia, I was able to apply concepts of visual rhetoric to improve my process of interpretation for advertisements or

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