Teaching English in the Two-Year College Mar 2010

“Who Will Be the Inventors? Why Not Us?” Multimodal Compositions in the Two-Year College Classroom

Lisa Bickmore ; Ron Christiansen

Abstract

This essay illustrates why compositionists should conceive of multimodal writing assignments as having wide-ranging and forward-thinking parameters, in order to invite the greatest possible range of student responses; it also suggests the directions we should take when evaluating such work.

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Teaching English in the Two-Year College
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2010-03-01
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10.58680/tetyc201010229
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