Author: Brady Hall

As a field, rhetoric and composition has made progress toward accepting multimodal reading and writing. We have respected disciplinary journals like Kairos and Composition Studies that accept and encourage innovative multimodal compositions, including websites, podcasts, videos, and other webtexts. This multimodal exposure in academic journals promotes reading these texts as a valid academic practice, and so supports students whose primary ways of engaging with discourses are through multimodal texts. Still, in many fields, multimodal texts remain unpopular and have yet to be widely accepted as part of academic discourses. This understanding of multimodal texts as outside of the standard realm…