NOTE: Whitney originally posted these artifact analyses on the Fall 2013 class blog for WRTG 3020, based the category of the artifact. That’s why her project doesn’t have a single title. Any formatting issues are likely my fault, as I may not have cleaned up the format when I transferred the project over here. [image […]
These are downloadable apps that can synch content across multiple computers and devices. I use the first three all the time! MarsEdit – blog management app for Mac (not free, but worth every penny) Dropbox (synch a range of files across multiple devices) Evernote – note management for Mac, Windows, web, and mobile Simplenote – […]
If you’re looking for practical information and guidelines for implementing multimodal composition assignments, I highly recommend that you check out Cynthia Selfe’s book, Multimodal Composition: Resources for Teachers. Here is the product description from Amazon: Multimodal Composition is designed to help teachers of English composition expand the modalities on which they and their students draw, […]
As my Fall 2014 students found out the hard way, Tumblr lacks the kind of full-featured comment system you can find in other blog platforms like WordPress or Blogger. Once you enter the settings for your blog in Disqus, you’ll get a shortname you can copy and paste into your Tumblr blog’s customization settings. Then […]
NOTE: This page refers primarily to making a storyboard that’s meant to serve as “proof of concept” for a visual project you don’t have the time or resources to create in video format. The page contains bits and pieces of several assignments, so it’s scheduled for revision over the summer of 2014. The main purpose […]
If you want to include a quotation in a post that will span more than two or three lines, or if you want to use special formatting to call attention to a bit of text, use the “block quote” tool on the post editing toolbar.
NOTE: I wrote the material below for a previous semester, when I asked all students to write synopses. If you decide to try writing a synopsis this semester, use the material below as a guide, but adapt it to suit your needs. Also be sure to review the handout on Using Writing to Show, not […]
NOTE: The tips below are from a calendar entry for my Fall 2013 sections of WRTG 3020, but they should be helpful to anyone planning to compose an audio essay. By now you should’ve come up with a few examples of the kinds of “messages” you received about gender and/or sexual orientation through your own […]
Personal Narrative by Adelyn (WRTG 3020 – Fall 2011) Rhetorical Situation Audience: My audience has changed from who I was originally targeting… Instead of focusing on trying to talk to youth athletic coaches about making sure to use equal workouts for guys and girls (to ensure that ALL of their athletes achieve the highest level […]
Mini-documentary by Zoe (WRTG 3020 – Fall 2012) I chose to do a documentary on the role that gender plays in politics and how relevant it still is today. My target audience is women of voting age, especially college-age women. The purpose of my project to a call to action, getting more women to vote […]
ABOUT: If you’re most interested in analyzing artifacts from pop culture or in persuading viewers to rethink their ideas about certain issues, the approaches below might appeal to you. Genres: analysis, viewpoint Formats: any visual format Critiques of pop culture come in a variety of forms, ranging from rhetorical analyses of specific artifacts (like commercials […]
A Multi-Person Interview by Kirsten and Chris (WRTG 3020 – Fall 2012) Our goal was to show the wide variety of responses as well as confusion when it comes to our personal gender and sexuality. This video is by college students for college students and we tried to play off of certain aspects of college […]
Below you’ll find links to pages in the WordPress.com Help Center. Also check out the help pages I published here: WordPress.com Support WordPress has by far the most comprehensive set of help pages, compared to Tumblr and Blogger, but it can be overwhelming for a new user to know where to start. Here are a […]
Helpful resource to better understand the “fair use” issues we need to consider when we ask students to compose multimodal texts using “found” images and audiovisual clips: NCTE Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education
