Multimodal Literacies And Emerging Genres (pitt Comp Literacy Culture)
by Carl Whithaus /
2013 / English / EPUB
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A student’s avatar navigates a virtual world and communicates the
desires, emotions, and fears of its creator. Yet, how can her
writing instructor interpret this form
A student’s avatar navigates a virtual world and communicates the
desires, emotions, and fears of its creator. Yet, how can her
writing instructor interpret this form
of meaningmaking?
of meaningmaking?
Today, multiple modes of communication and information technology
are challenging pedagogies in composition and across the
disciplines. Writing instructors grapple with incorporating new
forms into their curriculums and relating them to established
literary practices. Administrators confront the application of
new technologies to the restructuring of courses and the
classroom itself.
Today, multiple modes of communication and information technology
are challenging pedagogies in composition and across the
disciplines. Writing instructors grapple with incorporating new
forms into their curriculums and relating them to established
literary practices. Administrators confront the application of
new technologies to the restructuring of courses and the
classroom itself.Multimodal Literacies and Emerging Genres
Multimodal Literacies and Emerging Genres examines the
possibilities, challenges, and realities of mutimodal composition
as an effective means of communication. The chapters view the
ways that writing instructors and their students are exploring
the spaces where communication occurs, while also asking “what
else is possible.” The genres of film, audio, photography,
graphics, speeches, storyboards, PowerPoint presentations,
virtual environments, written works, and others are investigated
to discern both their capabilities and limitations. The
contributors highlight the responsibility of instructors to guide
students in the consideration of their audience and ethical
responsibility, while also maintaining the ability to “speak
well.” Additionally, they focus on the need for programmatic
changes and a shift in institutional philosophy to close a
possible “digital divide” and remain relevant in digital and
global economies.
examines the
possibilities, challenges, and realities of mutimodal composition
as an effective means of communication. The chapters view the
ways that writing instructors and their students are exploring
the spaces where communication occurs, while also asking “what
else is possible.” The genres of film, audio, photography,
graphics, speeches, storyboards, PowerPoint presentations,
virtual environments, written works, and others are investigated
to discern both their capabilities and limitations. The
contributors highlight the responsibility of instructors to guide
students in the consideration of their audience and ethical
responsibility, while also maintaining the ability to “speak
well.” Additionally, they focus on the need for programmatic
changes and a shift in institutional philosophy to close a
possible “digital divide” and remain relevant in digital and
global economies.
Embracing and advancing multimodal
communication is essential to both higher education and students.
The contributors therefore call for the examination of how
writing programs, faculty, and administrators are responding to
change, and how the many purposes writing serves can effectively
converge within composition curricula.
Embracing and advancing multimodal
communication is essential to both higher education and students.
The contributors therefore call for the examination of how
writing programs, faculty, and administrators are responding to
change, and how the many purposes writing serves can effectively
converge within composition curricula.