In Lange's Migrant Mother (Nipomo, March 1936), a mother faces the camera while two children turn into her shoulders. How does the composition argue?

An article on school lunches uses a close photo of one empty tray, with a long cafeteria line blurred behind it. What stance does the composition invite?

A campaign mailer shows the incumbent from a high angle at a nearly empty town-hall table, with the audience cropped out. What does that composition imply?

A relief poster places a flooded house low in the frame and a rescue helicopter small against a wide gray sky. How does the image's scale argue?

A photo essay on eviction shows a tenant's packed boxes in sharp focus; the landlord and courthouse are blurred behind them. What is the visual emphasis?

A magazine cover shows two debate teams in a balanced split frame, each shot at eye level and given equal space. What argument does the composition make?

A labor story opens with a photograph of a worker's hands filling the foreground while executives appear small behind a glass wall. What does the juxtaposition do?

The Library of Congress shows an unretouched Migrant Mother print with a thumb at the lower right and a retouched version without it. What issue does that edit raise?

A wire photo of a march originally shows protesters and counterprotesters; a site crops it to show only protesters. What changes rhetorically?

An interviewee says, 'The plan has risks, but delay is worse.' A broadcast clip begins after 'but.' What does the edit do?

A documentary shows a factory door closing, then cuts to workers leaving in silence before giving layoffs data. What premise does the sequence invite?

A campaign ad changes a rival's speech from full color and normal speed to black-and-white slow motion with low music. What does the edit supply?

A news package places footage of broken windows immediately before a quoted sentence about a protest, though the quote names only crowd size. What is the effect?

Two charts show approval rising from 48% to 52%; one y-axis starts at 0, the other at 47. How does the second display argue?

A report overlays unemployment and theft reports on two y-axes scaled so both lines rise together. What should a critical reader notice?

A map colors counties 0-10 cases pale yellow, 11-12 orange, and 13 red. What stance does that scale invite?

A company chart of customer complaints uses cumulative yearly totals, so the line only climbs. What limitation would relying on it create?

A bar chart ranks cities by total bike crashes but omits population and miles ridden. What claim would it overstate?

On Nov. 3, 1948, the Chicago Daily Tribune front page read 'DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN,' though Truman won. Beyond the error, what does the headline demonstrate?

One headline over a budget story says 'Council Slashes Library Hours'; another says 'City Balances Deficit.' What changes?

A caption under a storm photo calls people carrying bottled water from a broken store 'looters'; another calls them 'residents seeking supplies.' What is at stake?

A study reports an association between late-night screen use and anxiety; a headline says 'Phones Make Teens Anxious.' What has shifted?

A student claims FSA photography shaped public support for relief. Which evidence set would best test that media-rhetoric claim?

A video of a board meeting shows applause after one speaker; the minutes say 'the public supported the plan.' What integration is strongest?

A city report says a youth program reduced arrests. It includes a line graph showing arrests fell after launch and interviews with two participants. What remains unproven?