Exercises — Week 30: Week 30 — Visual Arguments: A Final Look

2 hands-on tasks. Do them in order; each one feeds the Canvas item it names.

35 min · analysis

1. Second OPTIC Analysis

Select a photograph from a news source or public archive that accompanies a persuasive story — a political event, a social issue, or a public demonstration.
Apply OPTIC in full. In the Interrelationships section, ask why each specific compositional choice was made and what argument it serves.
Write a final paragraph of four to six sentences explaining what argument the image makes independently of any accompanying text.
Add one sentence naming one element the image would need to change to argue the opposite.

Turn in / bring: Full OPTIC analysis with a final paragraph on the visual argument and a one-sentence reversal note.

25 min · written

Using the photograph from exercise 1, write a synthesis paragraph (150 words) that integrates this visual source alongside one written source on the same subject.
Write an original claim as the topic sentence. Use the full three-step integration process for each source: introduce (by origin for the image, by credibility for the written source), present the evidence (description for the visual; quotation or paraphrase for the written), and explain each source's connection to your claim.

Turn in / bring: One synthesis paragraph with both sources labeled as three-step integrations and the original claim underlined.