Compose, Design, Advocate

*Compose, Design, Advocate: A Rhetoric for Multimodal Communication*, 3rd Edition, is a writing guide that helps authors choose effective strategies, arrangements, and media across varied communication settings. Written by Anne Frances Wysocki and Dennis A. Lynch, the textbook instructs readers in combining words and images in both writing and speaking.

The volume introduces a systematic method for analyzing communication situations, offering vocabulary and concepts applicable to diverse genres and compositional modes. Discussion covers rhetorical processes, research practices that support argument, and techniques for analyzing multimodal works.

To connect rhetorical principles with practical action, the textbook features an advocacy chapter providing communication strategies to produce change in personal and community environments.