Chinese Zombies in the American English Composition Classroom
After I graduated with a BA in English in 2005, I decided to take one year “off” to…
Browsing: multimodality
Checking in with Blog Carnival #5: Beyond a “Single Language/Single Modality” Approach to Writing
This year, our blog carnival seeks to highlight the affordances of connecting multilingual and multimodal approaches to writing.…
Globally Distributed Knotworks: Towards a Multilingual and Multimodal Framework
Within composition there have been calls to locate the teaching of writing in relation to other languages and…
Creating Digital Spaces for Linguistic Diversity
I’ve just returned to North Carolina from a trip to Montreal where I was greeted everywhere with the…
Multimodality for Multilinguals: It’s Not Only Multimodal Composing
This semester I’m teaching one section of first-year composition for multilingual students. The first-year composition curriculum at Miami…
Born
Title: Born Type: Digital magazine Publication Launch: 1996 Publication Retirement: 2011 Link: http://archive.bornmagazine.org/ I was introduced to this…
First-year Composition Students Uptake Multilingual Writing: How to be a Boundary Crosser if you are a “Monolingual” Writer
What would do you if you had to read a text with lots of unknown words? Student A:…
Revisit Last Night’s #DRCchat
(As of 2/2/2018 this storify has been archived and shared below) Last night's Twitter #DRCchat turned out out…
Branching out and Staying in: Inviting a Transmedia Approach
In 2011, I was very excited to read Bruce Horner, Min-Zhan Lu, Jacqueline Jones Royster, and John Trimbur’s…
Translanguaging Literacies and Community Ethnographies
The photo above exemplifies how bilinguals communicate with hybrid sense-making strategies. I collected the image during my fieldwork…
Thinking about Multi (or Trans-) Modality, and Trans (or Multi-) Linguality: Power, Ideology, and Emerging Questions
A potential synergy arises from the confluence of multi- (or trans-) modality, and trans- (or multi-) linguality. These…
Call for Blog Carnival Contributions: Beyond a “Single Language/Single Modality” Approach to Writing
Recently, scholars in rhetoric and composition and digital rhetoric have been paying increased attention to the connections between…