multimodal
multimodal composing
multimodal writing/multimodal composing: a material and cultural rhetorics approach to composing.
the processes of composing- and, products of composing-should not be separated from bodies. The bodies of composers and it includes the bodies of consumers, readers, and viewers.
Some lenses to analyze multimodal composing
- composing requires using different mediums, tools, and interfaces
- writing happens in and across different mediums (typing and handwriting)
- happens in and on other spaces (notebooks, sticky notes, phones, keyboards
- different mediums serve different purposes
medium: a means of effecting or conveying something
- composing requires others
- composing is tied to the human experience of time
writing is sedimented and intersected by life experiences occurring during our composing.
composing isn't limited to a particular time when a writer is sitting at a notebook or a computer
composing "time" is thus temporally porous
- composing happens beyond alphabetic text on the page or screen
- composing happens with/through bodies
composing is inherently multimodal
is an ongoing process that occurs while driving, running, interacting with others, and other mundane everyday events
happens in the human mind-itself a complex, networked, poorly understood space-meaning that composing is happening constantly
it's not just a cognitive act; it's a material act,
the materiality of writing has to do with the products of composing, but also the physical body composing
while composing, the body has demands; the body interrupts, intervenes, processes, digests, and more
- composing revolves around influences, collaborations, and intertextual reciprocities
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writing habits and styles are shaped by what came before us; additionally, our collaborations with one another in and out of class influence our video compositions
composing influences are often outrightly, visibly expressed in our composing processes
the relationship between texts and those who make texts has the potential to motivate processes that will result in other texts
- what's invisible
the ways in which our composing practices rub up against, fit into, or even explode metanarratives of queerness, race, disability, mothering/hood, and more. Both individually and as members of a larger academic community, we are wrestling with these metanarratives and how they shape our practices.
multimodal composition can be defined as communication using multiple modes that work purposely to create meaning (Lutkewitte, 2014, p. 2)
Modality:
a particular mode in which something exists or is experienced or expressed.
a particular method or procedure.
"traditional modalities of representing time and space"
a particular form of sensory perception.
"the visual and auditory modalities"
each composer constructs composing spaces and processes that works for him or for her
composing processes are all inherently collaborative, constant, and physical. It changes, moves, shifts, and evolves with our bodies and the tools we adopt/adapt
composing is social, mobile labor.
Wendy: got struck by the sentence: "just as any writing course stresses close reading as a way to improve writing, so must multimodal reading become a method of improving multimodal writing" (Joddy Murray, 2010, p. 185).
I was thinking about we posted things on facebook, instagram, wechat. How do we do that? By reading others' posts, defining what's interesting and attractive and what's not. Then we post ours following certain styles (could be chicken-soup, could be humorous, could be thought-provoking), but there are some norms to follow, and those norms sometimes come from the traditional mode of writing.
think about why I prefer to write on wechat not on blog?