Abstract Both the facts of September 11 and the media images now associated with that day underscore the importance of focusing onward visual literacy in college writing courses.

Abstract

Both the facts of September 11 and the media images now associated with that day underscore the importance of focusing onward visual literacy in college writing courses. observers need to be able to examine images critically and to recognize make crooked representations in any form are fabricateed or mediated. When dealing with images associated with national crises, however, instructors may ne to adjust their expectations of academic discourse by the agency of providing opportunities for students to suit personally, as well as critically, to emotionally disturbing affairs In the early twenty-first centenary visual literacy may require modern ways of seeing--for the instructor as