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Visual Representations of Academic Misconduct: Enhancing Information Literacy Skills
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Ivancic, Sonia R.; Hosek, Angela M. – Communication Teacher, 2017
Courses: This unit activity is suited for courses with research and source citation components, such as the Basic Communication; Interpersonal, and Organizational Communication courses. Objectives: Students will (a) visually interpret and analyze instances of plagiarism; (b) revise their work to use proper citations and reduce instances of…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Information Skills, Cheating, Visual Literacy
Using "Reinterpreting the Four Freedoms" to Teach about Ideology and Ideographic Persuasion
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Smith, Christina M. – Communication Teacher, 2015
As Barry Brummett (1984) has argued, the purpose of rhetorical theory is pedagogical--providing students with resources for understanding the rhetorical transactions that they encounter every day. An understanding of the implications of ideology is necessary for advanced communication students. Kellner and Share (2005) contend that this is…
Descriptors: Ideology, Theories, Rhetoric, Power Structure
Discovering Differences in the Nature of Verbal and Visual Messages
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Adler, Barbara Laughlin – Communication Teacher, 2006
Objective: Students will identify several unique characteristics of verbal vs. visual messages, including the superior ability of language to communicate objective, factual, philosophical content in past, present, and future terms; and the superior ability of visual images to communicate social-emotional meaning and concrete information limited in…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Class Activities, College Instruction, Visual Perception