Going Multimodal: Programmatic, Curricular, and Classroom Change

Abstract

AS THE STUDENTS NOTE IN this epigraph, we do not live in a monomodal world. Rather, we experience the world and communicate through multiple modalities. "To confine" students to learning in only one mode, typically the textual mode in first-year writing courses, indeed limits, students' understanding and creative potential-a point that has reemerged in considerations of education and the teaching of writing..."Gorng Multimodal: Programmatic, Curricular, and Classroom Change" by Chanon Adsanatham, Phill Alexander, Kerrie Carsey, Abby Dubisar, Wioleta Fedeczko, Denise Landrum, Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson, Heidi McKee, Kristen Moore, Gina Patterson, and Michele Polak from Multimodel Literacies and Emerging Genres in Student Compositions, edited by Tracey Bowen and Carl Whithaus, ~ 2013. All rights are controlled by the University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, PA 15260. Used by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press.</p