Drawing Into Being: Charter Graphics and Their Functions

Lisa Dush

doi:10.1177/10506519211064615

Journal of Business and Technical Communication Apr 2022

Drawing Into Being: Charter Graphics and Their Functions

Lisa Dush DePaul University

Abstract

Prior researchers have identified charter documents as texts that serve an outsize role in stabilizing social reality and mediating work, writing, and network building. While charter documents are typically authoritative and text-only tomes, this article expands the category to include charter graphics, visual texts that serve similarly important genre and network functions. Through retrospective analysis of one charter graphic and its role in a decade-long project by a nonprofit organization, this article demonstrates the potential rhetorical, social, and network functions of charter graphics; distinguishes them from charter documents; and offers suggestions for both practitioners and researchers.

Journal: Journal of Business and Technical Communication
Published: 2022-04-01
DOI: 10.1177/10506519211064615
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