Conference on College Composition and CommunicationThe Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC, often referred to as "Four Cs" or "Cs") is a national professional association of college and university writing instructors in the United States. The CCCC formed in 1949 as an organization within the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). CCCC is the largest organization dedicated to writing research, theory, and teaching worldwide.
Digital rhetoricDigital rhetoric can be generally defined as communication that exists in the digital sphere. As such, digital rhetoric can be expressed in many different forms, including text, images, videos, and software. Due to the increasingly mediated nature of our contemporary society, there are no longer clear distinctions between digital and non-digital environments. This has expanded the scope of digital rhetoric to account for the increased fluidity with which humans interact with technology.
Visual rhetoricVisual rhetoric is the art of effective communication through visual elements such as images, typography, and texts. Visual rhetoric encompasses the skill of visual literacy and the ability to analyze images for their form and meaning. Drawing on techniques from semiotics and rhetorical analysis, visual rhetoric expands on visual literacy as it examines the structure of an image with the focus on its persuasive effects on an audience. Although visual rhetoric also involves typography and other texts, it concentrates mainly on the use of images or visual texts.
Rhétoriquethumb|Démosthène s'exerçant à la parole, toile de Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ (1842-1923). La rhétorique est l'art de l'action du discours sur les esprits. Le mot provient du latin rhetorica, emprunté au grec ancien , « technique, art oratoire ». Plus précisément, selon Ruth Amossy : . La rhétorique est d’abord l’art de l’éloquence. Elle a d’abord concerné la communication orale.
Écriturevignette|Statue de Gudea dédiée au dieu Ningishzida, vers , musée du Louvre. vignette|La Palette de Narmer est une des plus anciennes inscriptions en hiéroglyphes d'Égypte (vers -3200). Les deux "Serpopards" représentent l'unification de la Haute et de la Basse Égypte. L’écriture est un moyen de communication qui représente le langage à travers l'inscription de signes sur des supports variés. C'est une technique qui s'appuie sur les mêmes structures que la parole, comme le vocabulaire, la grammaire et la sémantique, mais avec des contraintes supplémentaires liées au système de graphies propres à chaque culture.