visual/multimodal rhetorics

Impersonation Podcast: Understanding Untruth in Uncertain Times

Assignments, collaboration and group work, digital literacy, information literacy, research, rhetoric, rhetorical appeals and argument, visual/multimodal rhetorics /

Joseph S. Vuletich Assignments & Activities Archive Assignment Description In today’s media ecosystem, politicians dismiss unflattering news stories as “hoaxes” and AI-generated deep-fakes concern us because of their increasingly realistic qualities. Scholars teaching information literacy have responded by developing sophisticated methods for sorting fact from fiction, promoting credibility, and dismissing falsehood. Yet falsehood is not […]

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The Zine Project: Reorienting Concepts of Composition through Multimodal Reflection

Assignments, genre and discourse community, reflection, rhetorical situation, visual/multimodal rhetorics /

Tania de Sostoa-McCue Assignments & Activities Archive Assignment Description This assignment is intended to be a transition, preparing students for practice in moving from alphabetic to multimodal projects. The goal of this assignment is for students to take a familiar genre (in this case, post-project reflections) and practice how they might transform an alphabetic assignment

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Reflective Writing About Podcasts for Critical Language Awareness

Activities, CLA, identity, language bias, linguistic diversity, visual/multimodal rhetorics /

Madeline Crozier Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description This activity helps students develop writing and listening skills through an exploration of how identity, language, and writing are connected. By including one or more podcast episodes as supplemental course content and then inviting students to reflect on and discuss the episodes, the activity brings multiple languages,

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The Time Capsule: A Narrative Composition for Developing Social Support Systems

Assignments, Community-engaged writing, digital literacy, visual/multimodal rhetorics /

Michele N. Zugnoni Assignments & Activities Archive Assignment Description The development of a social support system is one of the greatest factors in college student success. Without such a system, students experience a sense of isolation and loneliness (Tinto 4). 28.4% of college students report feeling socially isolated (“Loneliness, Resilience” 3). 64.7% of college students

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Informative or Argumentative Infographic

Assignments, information literacy, research, visual/multimodal rhetorics /

Erin Breaux Assignments & Activities Archive Assignment Description This multimodal assignment challenges students to think in a different medium and consider the impact of visual rhetoric. While composing an infographic, they learn skills such as concision, design principles, organization of texts and images, and use of statistics, charts, and graphs. The infographic works well for

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Designing Multimodal Technical Instructions for Cross-Cultural Resonance Using a Culturally Inclusive Approach

cultural awareness, digital literacy, professional writing, technical writing, visual/multimodal rhetorics, Volume 6, writing in global contexts, writing technologies /

Audrey G. Bennett Volume 6 Chapter Description The culturally inclusive approach introduced in this chapter can be used to design multimodal technical instructions that resonate cross-culturally by 1) representing culture competently from knowledge gleaned by conducting primary and secondary research and 2) enabling cross-cultural interpretation through interactive aesthetics. The approach aligns with a curriculum that

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Worth a Thousand Words: Constructing Visual Arguments in Technical Communication

technical writing, visual/multimodal rhetorics, Volume 6 /

Candice A. Welhausen Volume 6 Chapter Description As a working professional, you will likely find yourself in situations where you need to create visual forms of communication. For example, many scientists and engineers construct technical drawings like illustrations and sketches. Professionals working in business and marketing may need to visualize financial data by creating tables

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Reflective Artist’s Statement for Multimodal Assignments

Activities, digital literacy, metacognition, narrative and storytelling, reflection, visual/multimodal rhetorics /

Benjamin Djain & Angela Geosits Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description The challenge of providing a multimodal assignment to students is encouraging creativity and experimentation with tools that are unfamiliar while, at the same time, ensuring that their work can be marked to a standard. Having students craft a substantive artist’s statement fulfills this dual

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The Twine Project: Engaging Metacognition and Remediation with Digital Narrative

Assignments, collaboration and group work, digital literacy, metacognition, narrative and storytelling, visual/multimodal rhetorics /

Brian Ernst Assignments & Activities Archive Assignment Description The Twine Project invites students to reconceptualize a previously written paper, ideally a personal narrative or argumentative essay, into a non-linear experience that can easily be shared or published on the internet as a single hypertext markup language (html) file without prior coding knowledge. Twine, an open-source

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Getting in Conversation about Activism: Group Podcast Assignment

Anti-Racist Pedagogy, Assignments, collaboration and group work, Community-engaged writing, critical thought and analysis, genre and discourse community, narrative and storytelling, Place-based Writing, Public Writing, visual/multimodal rhetorics /

Jeanette Lehn Assignments & Activities Archive Assignment Description In my class on public rhetorics, I strive to empower students to possess agency in speaking to an unbounded global public with the understanding that all rhetors are constrained and imbricated in complex systems. Cooper writes, “Rhetors—and audiences—are agents in their actions, and they are responsible for

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