This was my final project for a Visual Rhetoric class I took. I looked at affordances specific to Manga for the purposes of teaching calculus- basically, I was interested in what Manga could do that math textbooks or even non-Manga cartoons can\'t.

1. Visual Rhetoric of The Manga Guide to Calculus By Hiroyuki Kojima and Shin Togami, Becom Co., LTD. Roxanne Johnson WRIT 5671 8 May, 2010 (Kojima, Togami & Becom Co. Ltd., 2009)

2. I’m a cartoon illustration used for math education! (Enzensberger, Hans Magnus & Berner, Rotraut Susanne, 1998, p. 177).

3. This is an example of using comics to explain math! (Gonick, Larry & Smith, Woollcott. 1993, p. 30)

4. Definition of Comics: Juxtaposed pictorial and other images in deliberate sequence, intended to convey information and/or produce an aesthetic response in the viewer “manga is visual data presented as animation. Calculus is a branch of mathematics that describes dynamic phenomena- thus, calculus is a perfect concept to teach with manga.” (Kojima, Togami & Becom Co. Ltd., 2009) (McCloud, 1993)

5. http://usacac.army.mil/CAC2/bcks/Connected/images/brain.jpg http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/images/flickr-words.jpg Affordance 1: words and images can be combined to create a multimodal text

6. “…visual language creates rhetorical energy by cultivating and meeting reader’s expectations” http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3477/3261421446_2eceef84bf.jpg “proficient manga readers are adept at negotiating multimodality, ‘using image plus language in increasingly complex ways’” Affordance 2: conceptual information becomes accessible through pre-established reader expectations (Schwartz, Rubenstein-Avila, 2006) (Kostelnick, 2004)

7. Affordance 3: gutters invite closure between panels (McCloud, 1993)

8. TRANSITIONS (McCloud, 1993)

9. Example: eight pages with 24 transitions from the Manga Guide chapter 1: let’s differentiate a function! Approximating functions and calculating the relative error Subject to subject Action to action (Kojima, Togami & Becom Co. Ltd., 2009, p. 23)

10. Scene to scene Action to action Action to action (Kojima, Togami & Becom Co. Ltd., 2009)

11. Subject to subject (Kojima, Togami & Becom Co. Ltd., 2009)

12. Subject to subject Scene to scene (Kojima, Togami & Becom Co. Ltd., 2009)

13. Subject to subject (Kojima, Togami & Becom Co. Ltd., 2009)

14. Subject to subject Subject to subject (Kojima, Togami & Becom Co. Ltd., 2009)

15. Subject to subject Subject to subject (Kojima, Togami & Becom Co. Ltd., 2009)

16. Subject to subject Subject to subject Subject to subject (Kojima, Togami & Becom Co. Ltd., 2009)

17. (McCloud, 1993)

18. our example from the manga guide to calculus Kojima and togami Action to action: 29% Subject to subject: 54% Scene to scene: 17% Kojima, Togami & Becom Co. Ltd., 2009, p. 65) (McCloud, 1993)

19. tufte’s visual confections Affordance 4: explanatory images can combine real and imaginary and transcend time using visual and textual space (Tufte, 1997, p. 121)

20. Verbs: what the function or roller coaster is doing increasing=ascending Decreasing=descending real conceptual real (Tufte, 1997) Nouns: terms being explained tops=maxima Bottoms=minima conceptual (Kojima, Togami & Becom Co. Ltd., 2009)

21. conclusion Affordances of manga: Multimodality Reader expectations Closure Combine real and imaginary, transcend time and space (Kojima, Togami & Becom Co. Ltd., 2009)

22. Do they work? Affordances of manga: Multimodality Reader expectations Closure Combine real and imaginary, transcend time and space (Kojima, Togami & Becom Co. Ltd., 2009)

23. thank you

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