Saying What We See

An Open Coursebook for Academic Writing and Composition

From the Preface:

"This book reflects the belief that visual literacy can bring whole new ways of seeing, that it can alter one’s daily experience of images, that it can activate parts of the brain that writing about other writing misses, and that it can teach a student a whole new language that enables a new way of looking. And, like all writing, learning to write about images involves reading a lot of writing too, so this book is intended to guide a student through some of the key writings on images of the past and present as models for their own explorations.

The first step to visual literacy is a simple one: saying what we see."

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