“The School of Writing, Rhetoric and Technical Communication is a community committed to preparing its students—both writers and technical and scientific communicators—for lives of enlightened, global citizenship.”
I chose these two images to best represent the WRTC mission statement for several reasons. The first image was chosen to show the relationships between not only just students but between graduate and undergraduate students. The picture shows Christy and Katy (both grad students) sitting with an undergraduate student. To get this point across, however, there should probably be some sort of caption explaining the “grad/undergrad sandwich”. Their friendly faces and positioning around the undergraduate student portrays a sense of “community” and “global citizenship”. This picture emulates the writing side of WRTC inherently by showing the undergrad holding up an obvious piece of writing. Unlike many other majors around James Madison, WRTC has classes that give undergrads and graduates the chance to communicate and interact with each other within the learning environment.
The second picture was chosen to reflect the technical communication side of WRTC. The picture shows two students looking over a computer (that just so happens to resemble the same monitors used within our computer labs). The students have smiles on their faces and one student appears to be helping the other do her work. This portrays “enlightened, global citizenship” and “community” by the willingness of students to help each other. The different ethnicity of the students also show a diverse and multicultural feel to the picture that should be welcoming to all persons who see this poster.