GLH10302-MCL tutorial: Multimedia

George Lewis Hughes

English 103: Accelerated Composition – MCL tutorial: Multimedia

Daniel Richards

September 29, 2008

Personal Assessment of Visual Mapping Process as a Conceptualization of Necessary Research: Visual Rhetoric Thesis Two: Shellshock as a Bridge Between Nihilism and Society

Thus far, the visual mapping, task-based approach to my oncoming annotation of a drafted research bibliography has proved rather beneficial to my own, mental inventory of a mapping toward compiling my own concept of the program of sources I must establish as the reinforcing foundation to my own, research-based, rhetorical thesis of the visually incorporating order. I am now more conceptually solid and decisive than I will ever be on the item of the inherent stages and various, qualitatively categorized components of my impending research process. With my primary source already firmly ingrained and instigated into the mindset of my research thesis – and, for that matter, with my thesis already trimmed down and molded out – I am fully prepared to engage in the scrupulous, time-demanding process of delineating and allotting my secondary sources to their proper designations of ranking importance in the future draft to be rendered.

I have for some time now already decided on the nature of my primary source – or rather, my introductory invocation of a conceptual, mental picture, thereby to the goal of rattling off the topic and, eventually, the thesis statement of my rhetorical analysis – which manifests the pictorial medium of an actual photograph of historic precedence and emotional character – simply enough, the harshly frontal image of a somewhat symmetrically posed, crouching, armed American soldier from the Vietnam-War era, who legitimately typifies the psychological entity of post-traumatic stress syndrome, more casually referred to as “shellshock.” As such, since the more pathetic and the other more humanitarian appeals of my paper intrinsically characterize my primary source, the photograph at hand, I will be more interested in focusing on secondary sources that take on the more professionally authoritative essence of scientific and clinical undertones to the prospective, congealed product of textual integrity that will become my polished thesis.