Feb10 • Shooting War - Arguing with Pictures and Words

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 What to read before class?

• Shooting War by Anthony Lappé & Dan Goldman
• excerpt from Making Comics by Scott McCloud

 

Today's agenda:

1. What did you think about Shooting War -- responses, praises, criticisms...
2. Review and Discuss Scott McCloud's Making Comics
3. Split into groups and find 1 or 2 interesting examples of picture/word combinations in Shooting War
4. How do these examples combine pictures and words?  What can you say about this example through from a rhetorical perspective?
5. Full class discussion

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 Scott McCloud • "The Power of Words" from Making Comics (2006)

 

 

Picture-Word Combinations

 

• Word-Specific (131)
  • Compression of Time
  • Free up pictures
  • How much readers see for themselves & how much they imagine

• Picture-Specific (133)
  • Sense of direct experience & immediacy

• Duo-Specific (135)

 

• Intersecting (136)
  • Both Words and Pictures offer a new perspective

• Interdependent (137)
  • Assemble very different perspectives - juxtaposition

• Parallel (138)
  • Words and Images do not connect

• Montage (139)
  • Words become very much like Pictures

 

 

W-P Combinations: Rhetorical Effects?

 

• Storytelling
• Graphic effects

 

 

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The Power of Pictures & Words in Shooting War

 

Split into groups.  Each group looks for a group of 2 or 3 interesting panels in Shooting War and discusses how the panel(s) combine pictures and words to advance the story or create a graphic effect.  Think about McCloud's categories while discussing the panel(s) your group has chosen. Then, answer any one of the core invention questions listed for Project Two, including:

 

1. What is the rhetorical situation?

 

2. What is the writer's ethos and how is it created?

 

3. What claim or proposition does the writer advance?

 

4. Considering the knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs the writer assumes to be common ground with her or his audience, how strong or weak are these arguments?

 

5. How is the text arranged? What are its parts? What is their relation to one another?

 

6. What is the role of style and tone?

 

 

While you discuss the questions, think about how the specific combinations of pictures and words in these panels work together to create a rhetorical effect?  Write your claim on your group's wiki page, and be sure to list the specific examples/reasons that support your claim below.  Use our discussion of McCloud to think your way through the Pictures and Words of Shooting War.

 

• Group 1
• Group 2
• Group 3
• Group 4
• Group 5
• Group 6

 

 

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