Moving forward in the concentration, I encountered various courses that defined Rhetoric, and for me, they gave me an in-depth understanding of the practice of Rhetoric and the importance that it has in our society. One of the courses that illustrated this for me was English 3110—Technical Writing with Dr. Baotong Gu. In this course, he assigned an Instructional Design Project with the objective of creating instructions on how to access a specific page on a website. My partner and I chose to create a brochure detailing step-by-step instructions for accessing PAWS and registering for classes. I enjoyed this particular project because it allowed me to engage in visual rhetoric in the sense that I had to understand what an image is intended to communicate and interpret that in my graphic design. With this in mind, I was able to understand how audience, purpose, and context directly affect the overall design of the project from the choice of typeface, the layout of a page, as well as the use of color and visuals. These skills proved to be useful because I felt as if I was armed with the knowledge of principles and analytical tools to allow for an effective discourse of the design process and its application.

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