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Making the Strange Familiar

A Pedagogical Exploration of Visual Thinking

Virginia Tech, Blacksburg

Scholarly conversation within the field of professional communication increasingly has focused on the practice, research, and pedagogy of visual rhetoric. Yet, visual thinking has received relatively little attention within the field. If our programs produce students who can think verbally but not visually, they risk producing writers who are visual technicians but are unable to move fluidly between and within modes of communication. This article examines the literature and pedagogical practices of visually oriented disciplines to identify strategies for helping students develop the ambidexterity of thought needed for the communication tasks of today's workplace.

Key Words: visual rhetoric • visual literacy • visual thinking • pedagogy • problem solving

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