As a new graduate student at Northeastern University in the 2010s, I remember attending several professional development workshops on multimodal writing. Touted as a more accessible, creative, and enjoyable approach to teaching writing, the assignments that the speaker shared looked like shadowboxes filled with visual and textual content. I sat with other graduate students and lecturers who taught in the university’s writing program and could hear both the excitement and the fear in the voices of my colleagues as we turned to the Q and A portion of the discussion. What happens if students do not know how to use…
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