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2018
Volume 73, Issue 3
  • ISSN: 0010-096X
  • E-ISSN: 1939-9006

Abstract

To equip students to analyze and create infographics with a rich understanding of rhetorical dynamics and sensitivity to how difference and equity issues are communicated, I propose a pedagogical approach to infographics drawn from Karen Barad’s concept of performative enactment and describe its implementation in a required writing classroom.

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