Multimodal Literacies and Emerging Genres

·
· University of Pittsburgh Press
Libër elektronik
296
Faqe

Rreth këtij libri elektronik

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?
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 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.

Rreth autorit

Tracey Bowen (Editor)
Tracey Bowen is a lecturer at the Institute of Communication, Culture and Information Technology at the University of Toronto Mississauga. She is coeditor of Cultural Production in Virtual and Imagined Worlds.

Carl Whithaus (Editor)
Carl Whithaus is a professor of writing and rhetoric at the University of California, Davis. He studies writing technologies and digital cultures, edits the Journal of Writing Assessment, and works on a variety of projects related to writing in the sciences, engineering, and agriculture. His books include Multimodal Literacies and Emerging Genres, Writing across Distances and Disciplines: Research and Pedagogy in Distributed Learning, and Teaching and Evaluating Writing in the Age of Computers and High-Stakes Testing.

Vlerëso këtë libër elektronik

Na trego se çfarë mendon.

Informacione për leximin

Telefona inteligjentë dhe tabletë
Instalo aplikacionin "Librat e Google Play" për Android dhe iPad/iPhone. Ai sinkronizohet automatikisht me llogarinë tënde dhe të lejon të lexosh online dhe offline kudo që të ndodhesh.
Laptopë dhe kompjuterë
Mund të dëgjosh librat me audio të blerë në Google Play duke përdorur shfletuesin e uebit të kompjuterit.
Lexuesit elektronikë dhe pajisjet e tjera
Për të lexuar në pajisjet me bojë elektronike si p.sh. lexuesit e librave elektronikë Kobo, do të të duhet të shkarkosh një skedar dhe ta transferosh atë te pajisja jote. Ndiq udhëzimet e detajuara në Qendrën e ndihmës për të transferuar skedarët te lexuesit e mbështetur të librave elektronikë.