Syllabi
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Distance Learning Introduction Letter and Syllabus (Daud 2020)
- Community Multimodal Communication (Bergstrom 2017)
- Interdisciplinary Exploration (Milian 2017)
- Multimodality and Its Potential (Woodcock 2017)
- Public, Pragmatic, and Beyond (Kumler 2017)
- Public Scholarship & "Making" (Grimmer 2017)
Assignment Prompts & Sequences
- Spatial Autobiography. Major Project 1 (Pinnata 2020)
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Conversation as A Practice Of Archiving. Short Assignment (Pinnata 2020)
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Analysis and Argument Through Film. Short Assignment (Pinnata 2020)
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Recording You Soundscape. Short Assignment (Pinnata 2020)
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Decoding Visual Rhetoric. Short Assignment (Pinnata 2020)
- A History of The Present: Creating A Mini-Documentary. Major Project (Pinnata 2020)
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Creative Synthesis. A Major Project (Postal 2020)
- Podcast Promotional Poster and Distribution Plan (Lane 2019)
- Annotated Instagram Bibliography (Lane 2019)
- Podcast Script and Draft (Lane 2019)
- Podcast Mini-Episode (Lane 2019)
- Project Proposal (Lovett 2019)
- Genre Analysis (Lovett 2019)
- Game-Based Genre Production and Circulation (Lovett 2019)
- Cultural Artifact Letter, Gallery Exhibition Analysis, and Intertextual Synthesis (Postal 2019)
- Joining a Discourse Community Sequences (Bergstrom 2017)
- Campaign Research Conference Sequences (Grimmer 2017; two integrated sequences including reading for multimodality, intertextuality, and pitch components)
- Open Multimodal Project Sequence (He-Weatherford 2017)
- Media, Visual, Defamiliar Sequence (Kumler 2017)
- Multimodal Social Media Campaign Sequence (Kumler 2017)
- Syllabus, Glossary, Poster Sequence (Milian 2017)
- Podcast Sequence (Milian 2017)
- Genre & Non-Traditional Essay Sequences (Woodcock 2017)
Class Plans & Activities
- Visiting the Special Collections Worksheet (Postal 2020)
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Make A Spell Activity (Ciummo 2020)
- Rhetorical Decisions (Kumler 2017)
- Aural Mode (Milian 2017)
- Source Synthesis & Evaluation (Bergstrom 2017)
- Intro to Multimodality Prezi (Woodcock 2017)
Textbooks
- Writing and Editing for Digital Media (Carroll 2020). Strategies for composing in digital media with a focus on voice, style, media formats, and content development. Request through Interlibrary Loan.
- Understanding Genres in Comics (Labarre 2020). Explores the different genres within comic-making and provides techniques for each genre. Available as an ebook through UW libraries.
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Multimodal Composing: Strategies for 21st Century Writing Consultation (Sabatino 2019). Focuses on rhetorical, design, and multimodal principles to inform consultation strategies. Available as an ebook through UW libraries.
- Compose, Design, Advocate, 2nd ed. (Wysocki and Lynch 2013). Focuses on combining written, oral, and visual modes. Can check out at UW libraries through Interlibrary Loan.
- New Media Writer (Morey 2016). The textbook has an accompanying student website. Textbook not available online.
- Writer/Designer (Arola, Ball, and Sheppard 2014). Supports a multimodal writing/rhetoric course with a focus on digital media; request immediate instructor access to view the textbook's online resources for students. Can request through Interlibrary Loan at UW website
Additional Resources
- Books, Articles, and Online Resources for Teaching Multimodal Composition
- Campus Support and Online Tools for Making Multimodal Compositions