Visual Rhetoric Analysis Essay English Assignment

Visual Rhetoric Analysis Essay English Assignment

Writing to analyze a text, idea, experience, event, or phenomenon for an academic audience.

For this writing assignment, students will examine what others have written about visual rhetoric. Students will consider issues of authorship, purpose, audience, and context and how these issues affect the way readers understand an author’s message. Main question: What have others written about this issue?

What to do

Visual Rhetoric Analysis essay (minimum word count 1,000 words)

Choose one or two related pictures or videos from the choices provided. As you analyze the posts and pictures, your analysis essay should cover the following points.

1. How does the picture or video you selected portray the concept of race-ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and socio-economic status?

2. Talk about clothing, pose, and facial expression in the posts.

3. Framing of the picture: background, filter, lighting, proximity, the angle of the camera

4. Any other parts appeared in the pictures: people, animals, and objects

5. Subculture: KPop, urban lifestyle, skateboarding culture, street art, multiplayer online role-playing game to name a few.

6. Rhetorical analysis: logos, pathos, and ethos of the posts

7. Was the ad successful and why?