{"product_id":"multimodal-literacies-and-emerging-genres-9780822962168","title":"Multimodal Literacies and Emerging Genres","description":"A student's avatar navigates a virtual world and communicates the desires, emotions, and fears of its creator. Yet, how can her writing instructor interpret this form \u003cbr\u003eof meaningmaking? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eToday, multiple modes of communication and information technology are challenging pedagogies in composition and across the disciplines. Writing instructors grapple with incorporating new forms into their curriculums and relating them to established literary practices. Administrators confront the application of new technologies to the restructuring of courses and the classroom itself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMultimodal Literacies and Emerging Genres examines the possibilities, challenges, and realities of mutimodal composition as an effective means of communication. The chapters view the ways that writing instructors and their students are exploring the spaces where communication occurs, while also asking \\u201cwhat else is possible.\\u201d The genres of film, audio, photography, graphics, speeches, storyboards, PowerPoint presentations, virtual environments, written works, and others are investigated to discern both their capabilities and limitations. The contributors highlight the responsibility of instructors to guide students in the consideration of their audience and ethical responsibility, while also maintaining the ability to \\u201cspeak well.\\u201d Additionally, they focus on the need for programmatic changes and a shift in institutional philosophy to close a possible \\u201cdigital divide\\u201d and remain relevant in digital and global economies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Embracing and advancing multimodal communication is essential to both higher education and students. The contributors therefore call for the examination of how writing programs, faculty, and administrators are responding to change, and how the many purposes writing serves can effectively converge within composition curricula.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tracey Bowen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pittsburgh Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822962168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTracey Bowen (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eTracey Bowen\u003c\/b\u003e is a lecturer at the Institute of Communication, Culture and Information Technology at the University of Toronto Mississauga. She is coeditor of \u003ci\u003eCultural Production in Virtual and Imagined Worlds.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarl Whithaus (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eCarl Whithaus \u003c\/b\u003eis a professor of writing and rhetoric at the University of California, Davis. He studies writing technologies and digital cultures, edits the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Writing Assessment\u003c\/i\u003e, and works on a variety of projects related to writing in the sciences, engineering, and agriculture. His books include \u003ci\u003eMultimodal Literacies and Emerging Genres\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWriting across Distances and Disciplines: Research and Pedagogy in Distributed Learning\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTeaching and Evaluating Writing in the Age of Computers and High-Stakes Testing\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Pittsburgh Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45022838456435,"sku":"9780822962168","price":101.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_1be981b4-02d0-4981-9b99-2fe192cf7820.jpg?v=1779280963","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/multimodal-literacies-and-emerging-genres-9780822962168","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}