Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
Visual Rhetoric
Lester C. Olson · 2008
55/100
👎 Skip It
Twenty scholarly essays on visual persuasion — photographs, film, stamps, tattoos — organized for use in university communication courses. Genuinely useful as a textbook, but listed as 'Self-help' which is simply wrong, and no general reader will find traction in the critical-theory language. For course adoption, ask your professor; for everyone else, skip it.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety68
Substance / usefulness68
Craft & writing70
Originality65
Evidence & accuracy74
Hype vs delivers48
Age-fit68
👁 Human-eye gut-check42
Penny’s verdict55
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