Assignment - Essay on an issue in LST
Choose ONE of the following topics: (Whichever topic you choose, DO NOT use texts from Assignments 1 or 2 as examples to illustrate your argument.)
a. The use of visuals in EITHER pedagogic science OR popular science OR professional science
b. A comparison the use of visuals in professional, popular and pedagogic science
c. A comparison the use of the use of metaphor in professional, popular and pedagogic science
d. The use of the use of metaphor in professional OR popular OR pedagogic science
e. Can popular science texts be used to teach the language of science to science students at university? Why or why not?
f. Select a website dealing with popular science and analyse the way it presents information and uses language (including metaphor), visuals and multimedia. (If you select this option, please check your selected site with Jean before you begin.)
g. Select a Youtube clip or a TV documentary dealing with popular, professional or pedagogic science and analyse the way it presents information and uses language (including metaphor), visuals and multimedia. (If you select this option, please check your selected clip with Jean before you begin.)
h. Select a story from a radio program such as the ABC's Science Show and analyse the way it presents information and uses language. (If you select this option, please check your selected clip with Jean before you begin.)
Readings-
1. Multimodality: Challenges to Thinking about Language by GUNTHER KRESS
2. Visual Literacy and science Communication by JEAN TRUMBO
3. Visual Persuasion: A Comparison of Visuals in Academic Texts and the Popular Press by Thomas Miller
Requirement:
1. Topic chosen: a
2. You must use those three readings i attached in the in-text reference and reference list. And 5 or more references should related to the topic, if you cannot find, let me know, I will find it for you in the university library.
3. You must decide this assignment to be written as essay format or analytical format. essay format is attached , please follow the structure
4. again, reference is important. the teacher is really strict with the reference, if any reference which is out of topic, I will fail with no excuse.
words: 2000 words.
APA referencing.
Number of Ref: above 8.