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Nightingale's Visual Rhetoric In The Rose Diagrams Summary

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Lee Brasseur’s article, “Florence Nightingale’s Visual Rhetoric in the Rose Diagrams” offers an insight of the practice of information design, through the work of Nightingale. In the Victorian era, during which women have played a subordinate role in the political world, Nightingale has successfully persuaded the British government to reform the army sanitary and management systems. Firstly, Nightingale uses rhetoric tools to address a problem --the poor treatment of soldiers in the field hospitals. Secondly, she provides an extensive analysis of the problem using statistical and comparative methods. Ultimately, she guides the readers to see the solution for the problem using objective data and emotional appeal. Nightdale had to overcome many

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