Three approaches to multimodal composing

This page is designed to show new and experienced colleagues three possible models, methods, and approaches to multimodal composing: textual/hybrid; digital; and material.

For context, see Multimodality & Multimodal Composing in First Year Writing; Multimodal Composing: Claims & Implementation (2014) and Toward Some Shared Vocabulary and Assumptions: Literacy & Technology (2013).

Have a multimodal assignment and resulting student project — with their permission — that you’d like to contribute here? Please send them to Michael.

Hybrid—alphabetic text, visuals; multimodal essays; photo essays; exploring textual & typographic conventions

Assignment: Multimodal Essay (Saeta) Student Project: Multimodal Essay: “Adidas is all In!” (King)
Assignment: Room for Debate (Rozzell) Project: Is Chronic Lyme Disease, or Post Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome simply a fad diagnosis? If it isn’t, is a long-term course of antibiotics the correct treatment?
Assignment:  Photo Essay (Olivier) Student Project: “last night was mad trill.” (Arrington)
Assignment: Typographic conventions: Why did you …? (Moore) Student Project: Student responses

Digital: blogs, social media, audio, video, photo/audio essays; might include remix & remediation, typographic explorations

Assignment: Multimodal Remix (Hermes) Student Project: “My Remix Project” (Walton)
Assignment:  Multimodal Essay Student Project: “What Does a Newspaper Sound Like?”

Material & evocative: 
may include print, digital, remix, remediation …

Assignment: Genre Challenge (MacKenna-Sandhir) Two student examples: The Ventriloquist & The Disruptor
Assignment: Remix the New York Times Student Project: “The NYT Business Section, Remixed” (+ SoGC)