English paper

Visual Text Analysis Essay

Pick one of the following as the “topic” of your visual text analysis essay. Note that for this very short 750-1000 word essay you may use one or two secondary sources, but they are not required.

Use spatial organization for your analysis. By that I mean analyze things from left to right or right to left or up-down, etc. Very often periphery (outside edge) to inside works well, as the organization parallels the critical thinking process of “closing in” on something.

Monday, May 6, have a cover chosen along with the usual skeletal outline (and remember, spatial organization). The beginnings of a rough draft will be due (just enough for me to glance at during class) on Wednesday, 4/18, and the final draft will be due Monday, 5/13.

On Wednesday, May 15, we will write a short, five paragraph, in-class, final essay on your choice of one of three topics I will provide at the beginning of class.

The deadline to turn in any assignments will be 12:00 Noon, Friday, May 17. Obviously, I will accept work before then, but that is the absolute deadline. I will be on campus that Friday, in my office, from 9:00 AM - 12:00 Noon. I will accept assignments by e-mail, in-person, or in my Bodie mailbox before 12:00 Noon. (Politely ask one of the folks in the Communications, Humanities and Fine Arts Division office in the downstairs center of Bodie Hall to place it in my mailbox as the mailroom is always locked.) I will check my e-mail and Bodie Hall mail for assignments at 12:00 Noon, Friday, May 17.