manga guide to calc
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This was my final project for a Visual Rhetoric class I took. I looked at affordances specific to Manga for the purposes of teaching calculus- basically, I was interested in what Manga could do that math textbooks or even non-Manga cartoons can\'t.TRANSCRIPT
THE MANGA GUIDE TO CALCULUS
VISUAL RHETORIC OF
BY HIROYUKI KOJIMA AND SHIN TOGAMI, BECOM CO., LTD.
ROXANNE JOHNSONWRIT 5671
8 MAY, 2010(Kojima, Togami & Becom Co. Ltd., 2009)
I’M A CARTOON ILLUSTRATION USED FOR MATH EDUCATION!
(Enzensberger, Hans Magnus & Berner, Rotraut Susanne, 1998, p. 177).
THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF
USING COMICS TO EXPLAIN
MATH!
(Gonick, Larry & Smith, Woollcott. 1993, p. 30)
DEFINITION OF COMICS: JUXTAPOSED PICTORIAL AND OTHER IMAGES IN DELIBERATE SEQUENCE, INTENDED TO CONVEY INFORMATION AND/OR PRODUCE AN AESTHETIC RESPONSE IN THE VIEWER
“MANGA IS VISUAL DATA PRESENTED AS ANIMATION. CALCULUS IS A BRANCH OF MATHEMATICS THAT DESCRIBES DYNAMIC PHENOMENA- THUS, CALCULUS IS A PERFECT CONCEPT TO TEACH WITH MANGA.”
(McCloud, 1993)
(Kojima, Togami & Becom Co. Ltd., 2009)
AFFORDANCE 1: WORDS AND IMAGES CAN BE COMBINED TO CREATE A MULTIMODAL TEXT
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“…VISUAL LANGUAGE CREATES RHETORICAL ENERGY BY CULTIVATING AND MEETING READER’S EXPECTATIONS”
“PROFICIENT MANGA READERS ARE ADEPT AT NEGOTIATING MULTIMODALITY, ‘USING IMAGE PLUS LANGUAGE IN INCREASINGLY COMPLEX WAYS’”
(Schwartz, Rubenstein-Avila, 2006)
(Kostelnick, 2004)
AFFORDANCE 2: CONCEPTUAL INFORMATION BECOMES ACCESSIBLE THROUGH PRE-ESTABLISHED READER EXPECTATIONS
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(McCloud, 1993)
AFFORDANCE 3: GUTTERS INVITE CLOSURE BETWEEN PANELS
TR
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SIT
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(McCloud, 1993)
Subject to subject Action
to action
(Kojima, Togami & Becom Co. Ltd., 2009, p. 23)
EXAMPLE: EIGHT PAGES WITH 24 TRANSITIONS FROM THE MANGA GUIDE CHAPTER 1: LET’S DIFFERENTIATE A FUNCTION!APPROXIMATING FUNCTIONS AND CALCULATING THE RELATIVE ERROR
Scene to scene
Action to
actionAction
to action
(Kojima, Togami & Becom Co. Ltd., 2009)
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subject
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Scene to scen
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subject
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(Kojima, Togami & Becom Co. Ltd., 2009)
(McCloud, 1993)
OUR EXAMPLE FROM THE MANGA GUIDE TO CALCULUS
KOJIMA AND TOGAMIAction to action: 29%
Subject to subject: 54%Scene to scene: 17%
(McCloud, 1993)
Kojima, Togami & Becom Co. Ltd., 2009, p. 65)
TUFTE’S VISUAL CONFECTIONS
(Tufte, 1997, p. 121)
AFFORDANCE 4: EXPLANATORY IMAGES CAN COMBINE REAL AND IMAGINARY AND TRANSCEND TIME USING VISUAL AND TEXTUAL SPACE
VERBS: WHAT THE FUNCTION OR ROLLER
COASTER IS DOING
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NOUNS: TERMS BEING EXPLAINED
TOPS=MAXIMABOTTOMS=MINIMA
REAL
CONCEPTUAL REAL
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2009)
(Tufte, 1997)
AFFORDANCES OF MANGA:
1.MULTIMODALITY2.READER
EXPECTATIONS3.CLOSURE4.COMBINE REAL
AND IMAGINARY, TRANSCEND TIME AND SPACE
CONCLUSION
(Kojima, Togami & Becom Co. Ltd., 2009)
AFFORDANCES OF MANGA:
1.MULTIMODALITY2.READER
EXPECTATIONS3.CLOSURE4.COMBINE REAL
AND IMAGINARY, TRANSCEND TIME AND SPACE
DO THEY WORK?
(Kojima, Togami & Becom Co. Ltd., 2009)
THANK YOU
WORKS CITEDEnzensberger, Hans Magnus & Berner, Rotraut Susanne. (1998). The number devil: A mathematical adventure. (Heim, Michael Henry, Trans.). New York, NY: Henry Hold and Company. (Original work published 1997).Gonick, Larry & Smith, Woollcott. (1993). The cartoon guide to statistics. New York, NY: Harper Perennial.Kojima, Hiroyuki, Togami, Shin & Becom Co., Ltd. (2009). The manga guide to calculus. San Francisco, CA: No Starch Press, Inc.Kostelnick, Charles. (2004). Melting pot ideology, modernist aesthetics, and the emergence of graphical conventions: The statistical atlases of the United States, 1874-1925. In Hill, Charles A & Helmers, Marguerite (Eds.) Defining Visual Rhetorics (215-242). New York, NY: Routledge.Kress, Gunther & van Leeuwen, Theo. (2006). Reading images: The grammar of visual design. New York, NY: Routledge.McCloud, Scott. (1993). Understanding comics: The invisible art. New York, NY: Harper PerennialSchwartz, Adam & Rubenstein-Avila, Eliane. (2006). Understanding the manga hype: Uncovering the multimodality of comic-book literacies. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy 50 (1), 40-48. Tufte, Edward. (1997). Visual Explanations. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press.