Infographic Project
Introduction/Rationale
This project will exercise your knowledge of genre analysis, rhetorical analysis and composing for specific audiences, as it asks you to rhetorically and graphically represent the data from your Project 3A researched argument in an infographic that you will design. An infographic is a visual representation of an evidence-based argument. We will spend some time working with sample infographics to get a sense of the genre conventions and to analyze various rhetors’ rhetorical choices in composing them. You will then work through your own rhetorical decision-making process to prioritize your data, and compose an infographic representing that data. In addition to creating your infographic, you will compose a short reflective piece that describes your composing process and gives a sense of your rhetorical choices. We will then present our infographics and reflections to each other in class.
Do the following
- to practice using rhetorical concepts such as audience awareness and visual rhetoric to translate your researched argument into a visual argument
- to practice reflection writing to articulate your rhetorical and visual design choices
- to give you practice composing in the genre of infographics.
