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Visual Rhetorical Analysis

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This second piece of writing is from my time enrolled in UW Stout’s Communicating with Emerging Media certificate program. This thesis driven essay is in response to a prompt for the Visual Rhetoric final project. The assignment was to complete a visual-rhetorical analysis of a controversial artifact of my choosing. In it, I was required to pose a question of visual significance and provide detailed, well supported answer using my own visual analysis and principles from the readings. While I am pleased with the finished product, writing this paper challenged my analytical and time managements skills and taught me something about myself.

Due to my interest in advertising, I chose to analyze a vintage print ad for Van Heusen ties. This image is brimming with strong sexist undertones and is a reflection of both gender roles and attitudes of the 1950’s. Particularly, the use of gender roles and how they are communicated in the individual elements as well as the composition as a whole is intriguing. I enlisted the reference librarian to help me research and she went above and beyond my expectations. Without her help, I would not have found the sources I did. Overall, it taught me to seek out new …show more content…

Writing a paper of this magnitude while juggling work and an additional class was a challenge with other things competing for my attention. To accomplish this task, I set personal milestones, broke the paper into into smaller, manageable chunks and eliminated obvious distractions. While these techniques were helpful, I still needed something else to help keep me on track. I found the need to transition from managing time to managing my attention in order to help me achieve my goals. After exploring different time management techniques, I stumbled upon the the Pomodoro technique, which helped realign my attention habits and train myself to be more present and

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