How is one to encourage a student to analyze the effectiveness of their argument within a visual context, especially in the context which I just demonstrated? A teacher might begin by developing a lesson plan including these kinds of questions:
How did you react to the photograph(s)?
Does this photograph persuade you to think in a certain way about this issue?
What do you base this persuasion upon?
Might this photograph function as its own argument, or does it require other means to back it up?
Would the other means required to back this argument require text, numeric data, other visuals, or some other means of evidence?
How does this photograph function in a different way than other textual evidence might function?
How would you arrange these photographs so that the relationship between them forms a more effective or coherent argument?
We must encourage our students to think of photographs and the relationships between photographs as a sort of dialectical discussion, where all the pieces fit together in a cohesive and arguable way.
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