Words and images can harmonize to clarify meaning in a variety of texts. This interdisciplinary work presents practitioners, researchers, creative artists, and teachers discussing how we process and develop meaning from words and images. This study is especially important for writers and designers working in electronic communication environments, where the marriage of words and images challenges traditional training.
Ranging from theory to practice, chapters examine both cognitive issues and aesthetic concerns. This book explores topics such as:^L^DBLHuman processing of images and text^DBLThe roles of written language in project development in the arts^DBLUses of images and visual thinking by writers^DBLHow the ways in which words and images convey meaning can be both different and complementary^LProfessionals, teachers, and students will be understand more effective uses of text and visual displays, and today's writer or designer will learn to clarify complex ideas by controlling the intersections of words and images.
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The processing and development of meaning from words and images are discussed in this interdisciplinary work.
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Relationships between Words and Images: An Overview |
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| part one FROM MEDIA TO MEANING: PERCEPTION, INTERPRETATION, AND LEARNING |
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The Indexical Hypothesis: Meaning from Language, World, and Image |
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The Ransom Note Fallacy and the Acquisition of Typographic Emphasis |
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Some Ways That Graphics Communicate |
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Being Visual, Visual Beings |
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Image, Word, and Future Text: Visual and Verbal Thinking in Writing Instruction |
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| part two MIXING MEDIA IN THE ARTS AND PROFESSIONS: DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE |
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Telling Our Stories in Pictures: Case History of a Photo Essay |
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Astronomical Rhetoric: Nineteenth-Century Photographs as Models of Meaning |
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Two-Dimensional Features in the History of Text Format: How Print Technology Has Preserved Linearity |
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The Concrete Word: Text and Image in the Theater |
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``The Way of the Sorcerer'': An Etiology of Two Images from a Lost Graphic Novel |
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| part three VISUAL AND VERBAL FEATURES IN DIGITAL SPACES: NEW VISIONS FOR TRANSFORMED CONTEXTS |
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The Digital Design Revoluation |
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Articulating (Re) Visions of the Web: Exploring Links among Corporate and Academic Web Sites |
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Mixing Oil and Water: Writing, Design, and the New Technolgy |
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| Afterword: Experiments with Image and Word |
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| Appendix A: Exercises and Experiments for the Workbench |
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| Appendix B: A Model Curriculum |
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| Selective Bibliography |
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| Index |
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| About the Editor and Contributors |
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NANCY ALLEN is Associate Professor of Written Communication in the English Department at Eastern Michigan University. She teaches courses in professional communication, rhetoric, research methods, and computers and writing. She has published in such journals as Technical Communication Quarterly, Computers and Composition, IEEE, Journal of Computer Documentation, and Journal of Business and Technical Communication and in books on technical communication. She is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for Computers and Composition.
