ComS 100B COURSE TEXTS
Required
Collateral e-texts

Required text

  Cover of Making Sense of Messages
Stoner, M. and Perkins, S. (2005)  Making Sense of Messages: A Critical Apprenticeship in Rhetorical Criticism. Boston:
      Allyn & Bacon.

You may also find a version published by Pearson:
New cover   Two covers, same book.  You'll find this cover in the campus bookstore.



Collateral E-texts
Aristotle's Rhetoric
Worth, S. Studying Visual Communication

You can find Aristotle's
Rhetoric at any good new or used book store. You can borrow a copy from a library.

You may also use any of these on-line versions of Aristotle's Rhetoric:
Animated Cartoon of Aristotle Lecturing

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
The Perseus Project (Tufts University) is an evolving digital library of resources for the study of the ancient world. This version of the Rhetoric includes
hypertext footnotes. This is a very useful site since you can search texts for specific uses of key rhetorical terms!

When you arrive at Perseus, type "The Rhetoric" in the search bar in the upper right corner of the page and press "Search."  You will get a list of three options,
click, Aristotle, Rhetoric (English) (ed. J. H. Freese).  You can search The Rhetoric for relevant section using the tools on the right side of the page.

HINT:  The Rhetoric is divided into sections called "bekker pages."  You will see references like this in my textbook, 1380a, for example.  If you click "bekker pages"
on the left side of the Perseus site, you will be able to access any area I cite by typing the bekker page reference into the search bar at the top of the text or clicking
the correct bekker page listed on the feft side of the page.

  OR

http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/rhetoric.html
This version from MIT is just the text in an easily downloadable form.



For Insight in Analysis of Visual Communication try: Studying Visual Communication by Sol Worth. Edited, with an Introduction, by Larry Gross, 1981
This book was first published by:
University of Pennsylvania Press
3933 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
It is now out of print.

This virtual version is being published with the permission of Tobia Worth and Larry Gross
            
by the Graduate Association of Visual Anthropologists at Temple University.

Copyright ©1981 by Tobia L. Worth
.

An example study of visual communication theory applied to a critical study:
Richardson, G. W. (2002) Visual storytelling and the competition for political meaning in political advertisin and news in campaign 2000. American Communication Journal, 5.
http://www1.appstate.edu/orgs/acjournal/holdings/vol5/iss3/articles/visual/visual.htm