Response to Cynthia L. Selfe's"The Movement of Air, the Breath of Meaning: Aurality and Multimodal Composing"

After acknowledging that "writing will continue to be a hallmark of educated citizens in the United States for some time to come," she goes further: I do want to argue that teachers of composition need to pay attention to, and come to value, the multiple ways in which students compose and...

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Published in:College composition and communication 2010-02, Vol.61 (3), p.602-605
Main Author: Hesse, Doug
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic Language
Aesthetic Education
Air
Aurality
Blogs
Curricula
Educational Change
Educational Theories
Ethics
Health care policy
Interchanges
Learner Engagement
Literacy
Political Issues
Pragmatics
Pragmatism
Rhetoric
Sanctions
Semiotics
Stakeholders
Student Participation
Students
Subcultures
Teachers
Websites
Written communication
Written composition
Written Language
Young adults
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Summary:After acknowledging that "writing will continue to be a hallmark of educated citizens in the United States for some time to come," she goes further: I do want to argue that teachers of composition need to pay attention to, and come to value, the multiple ways in which students compose and communicate meaning, the exciting hybrid, multimodal texts they create-in both nondigital and digital environments-to meet their own needs in a changing world. 642) I'll set aside empirical questions of how many students actually are composing (as opposed to consuming) in what kinds of modes and media (a recent Pew study, for example, reports that 11 percent of teens have a website and 27 percent a blog, with 65 percent using social networking sites; see Lenhart.
ISSN:0010-096X
1939-9006