Visual Literacy A NECESSARY COMPONENT OF TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION
Visual Literacy A NECESSARY COMPONENT OF TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION.
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Visual LiteracyA NECESSARY COMPONENT OF TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION
Visual Literacy
Visual Culture
Tech Communication and Visual Literacy
Visual Social Semantics -- Visual Analysis
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Visual culture is concerned with the visual events in which information, meaning or pleasure is sought by the customer in an interface with visual technology.
- Nicolas Mirzoeff
Evolution of Visual Culture
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Technical communication is the creation of technical documents, you are writing, designing, and transmitting technical information so that people can understand it easily and use it safely, effectively and efficiently.- Mike Markel
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A variety of terms to represent the visual, including visual rhetoric, visual communication, and visual language.”
- Tiffany Craft Portewig
Visual Social Semantics
The description of semiotic resources, what can be said and done with images, and how the things people say and do with images can be interpreted.
Visual Social Semantics
Kress and van Leeuwen (1996), “recognizes that image performs simultaneously on three kinds of meta-semiotic tasks to create meaning.”
Three Meta-Semiotic Tasks
Representational metafunction Interpersonal metafunction
Compositional metafunction
Representational metafunctionLooks at the person, place, or objects in the image.
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Interpersonal metafunctionCovers the participants’ actions producing and viewing the image.
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Compositional metafunction
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How an image creates meaning through the visual syntax of image and layout.
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Final Note: Remember not all technical communication may be as it appears. It requires visual literacy savvy.
Credits
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Markel, M. (2007). Technical Communciation(8th ed.). Boston/New York: Bedford/St. Martins.
Portewig, T. (2004). Making sense of the visual in technical communication: a visual literacy approach to pedagogy. Journal Of Technical Writing & Communication, 34(1/2), 31-42.
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