Ideas for college writing

Describing, analyzing, and explaining cartoons

Students choose (or are assigned) different years or cartoonists and their writing examines, describes and analyzes multiple cartoons from that year (person).  In addition to describing the content, students answer the following questions: What's the message behind the cartoon?  Is the message subtle or overt?  Is there a hidden message?  What were the social circumstances at the time of the cartoon?  What can we infer about the cartoonists preferences and prejudices from the cartoons you chose?
 
Pulitzer winning cartoons
 
     

Describing, analyzing, and explaining visual images

 
Pulitzer winning photographs - breaking news
 
     
 
Pulitzer winning photographs - features
 

Coming soon: writing about graphs and visual representations of data and ideas; writing about short videos; writing about commercials and short animated clips; writing about longer animated pieces; longer writing about articles from newspapers and magazines, TV shows, news, etc.

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