Category: Books, Textbooks
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Writer/Designer, 2nd edition
citation Ball, Cheryl E.; Sheppard, Jennifer; & Arola, Kristin L. (2017). Writer/designer: A guide to making multimodal projects, 2nd ed. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin’s Press. abstract In this second edition of the textbook, I provided lead authorship in the revision and additions, including an additional 60 pages of content and a total revision of the…
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Writer/Designer: A Guide to Making Multimodal Projects
citation Arola, Kristin L.; Sheppard, Jennifer; Ball, Cheryl E. (2014). Writer/designer: A guide to making multimodal projects. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s. abstract (from the Bedford W/D website) Creating multimodal projects can seem daunting, but Writer/Designer streamlines the multimodal composing process and makes it manageable for students. Designed to work in any college course, this brief, accessible…
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"visualizing composition"
Ball, Cheryl E., & Arola, Kristin L. (2010). visualizing composition (2nd ed.). Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s Press. http://ix.bedfordstmartins.com [password required] description [the ‘cover’ blurb] ix visualizing composition is a concrete introduction to the fundamentals of multimodal composition. Each tutorial moves through the following three steps: Define. Illustrated definitions help you visualize principles of layout, design and…
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"Picturing Texts Website"
citation Ball, Cheryl E. (2004). Picturing Texts [Website]. New York: W.W. Norton. http://www.picturingtexts.com abstract [from site] Redefining composition to include conscious attention to images and design, Picturing Texts is a writing textbook that teaches how to compose visual texts as well as how to read them. This Web site is a repository of useful materials…
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"ix tech comm"
citation Ball, Cheryl E. & Arola, Kristin L. (2005). ix tech comm: visual exercises for technical communication [CD-ROM]. Boston: Bedford–St. Martin’s. abstract [from CD cover] ix tech comm offers a new way to visualize technical communication—because there are things you just can’t do in a book. Each of the 9 exercises moves through the following…
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"ix visual exercises"
citation Ball, Cheryl E. & Arola, Kristin L. (2004). ix: visual exercises [CD-ROM]. Boston: Bedford–St. Martin’s. abstract This CD-ROM introduces visual rhetoric theories to students and teachers using rhetorical terms with which they are already familiar. It includes visual readings and assignments that students in cultural-studies-focused writing classes are likely to encounter (e.g., advertisements, photographs,…
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"Picturing Texts Instructor's Guide"
citation Ball, Cheryl E. (2004). Picturing Texts instructor’s guide. New York: W.W. Norton (pp. 1-114). abstract The Instructor’s Guide, which accompanies the Picturing Texts (Selfe, George, Palchek, & Faigley, 2004) composition textbook, suggests starting points for working with the discussion questions, advice to give students about the writing prompts, syllabi for several ways of using…