Photography: A Writer's Tool for Thinking, Rendering, and Revising

Abstract

This article draws on the complementary processes of writing and photography. A theory and method of instruction employing visual and metacognitive strategies are suggested to aid students in discovering unseen details and meaning when writing descriptive prose.

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Vincent Miholic

Vincent Miholic has taught a variety of English and Reading courses at Illinois, Arizona, Florida, and Louisiana colleges and universities and is currently Dean of General Studies at South Louisiana Community College, 908 Ember Dr., New Iberia, 70560, fax [phone]. He would like to thank Richard Lawson (retired) Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, whose teaching fully actualized photographic methodology in literary interpretation.