At Friday’s D-WRD meeting we used John Trimbur’s chapter “Delivering the Message: Typography and the Materiality of Writing” as a prompt for a good discussion on a range of pedagogical, writing, and technology issues:
- Pete introduced us to this interesting and accessible video on Gestalt & Typography
- Kinross on the “Rhetoric of Neutrality” (PDF)
- James Elkins’s Facebook page
- Elkins’s book, Visual Practices Across the University
- Typographic issues in Digication (student resources):
- Writing Center tutorial on CSS in Digication
- Molly Bang’s Picture This: How Pictures Work
Friday, 10/5
- Typography in the writing class: Moore
- Reading: Trimbur, (From Rhetoric and Composition as Intellectual Work.) “Delivering the Message: Typography and the Materiality of Writing.” PDF
- Compose, Design, Advocate, ch 9
- Background: Errol Morris:
— Do this first
— Then read this and this