Sources Read:
- Faigley, Lester. "Material Literacy and Visual Design." Rhetorical Bodies. 1999. 171-201.
- Olson, David R. "From Utterance to Text: The Bias of Language in Speech and Writing." Harvard Educational Review 47.3 (1977): 257-81.
- Trimbur, John. "Delivering the Message: Typography and the Materiality of Writing." Visual Rhetoric in a Digital World: A Critical Sourcebook. Ed. Handa, Carolyn. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2004. 260-71.
My
focus for this week’s reading has been to explore further into Trimbur’s
chapter on the materiality of writing. This chapter from my Visual Rhet class
this spring really fascinated me, particularly Trimbur’s views of the influence
of the essayist movement on expectations for rhetoric today: “One of the main
obstacles to seeing the materiality of writing has been the essayist
tradition and its notion of a transparent text” (261).
