Shaping Information: The Rhetoric of Visual Conventions

In this wide-ranging analysis, Charles Kostelnick and Michael Hassett demonstrate how visual language in professional communication -- text design, data displays, illustrations -- is shaped by conventional practices that are invented, codified, and modified by users in visual discourse communities. Drawing on rhetorical theory, design studies, and a broad array of historical and contemporary examples, Shaping Information: The Rhetoric of Visual Conventions explores the processes by which convent…