2. Challenges of the E-portfolio
• The e-portfolio asks students
to combine academic writing
and new media writing genres.
•Academic writing does not
value the use of images in
composition. New media
writing does.
•Where/how does the use of
image fit into the creation of
the e-portfolio?
3. Rationale for a Visual Rhetoric Focus
Visual rhetoric is an essential
aspect of writing today in
popular/mainstream contexts
(web sites, blogs, journalism)
Images are significant to the
presentation and argument of
the e-portfolio. How students
conceive of themselves as
writers is both textual and
visual.
Fertile ground for writing—the
expert factor. Students are
as adept, if not more adept,
at analyzing images as they
are traditional print texts.
4. Assignments
Writing Self-Assessment with Collage
Website Evaluation
Digital Photo Essay Analysis
Writing Philosophy
4 Reflection Papers
Introduction to the E-port
5. Website Evaluation
•Identify site’s argument.
•Evaluate the quality of content, image, design and
architecture.
•Use screen shots as visual evidence.
•Consider the criteria for effective websites in design
of own e-portfolio.
6. Digital Photo Essay Analysis
•Analyze the use of image, text, and audio in a digital
photo essay to create an argument.
•Perform a close reading of a few particular images
and the accompanying text or audio.
•Use images as visual evidence.
7. Writing Philosophy
•First-person piece that combines argument and
narrative.
•Based on NPR’s “This I Believe.”
•Use image as a means of representing and
structuring the piece on your e-portfolio.
