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December 5th, 2009  •  Posted by English 579: Computers & Writing  • 

Writing New Media

"With the rapid advance of electronic media in academe, in the writing classroom, and in the workplace, college teachers of composition are faced with the need to teach writing for a number of new venues, with a number of new technologies. The four authors of Writing New Media address the expansion of their field by proposing an expanded vision of composition—one informed by what's possible in new media and by the changing conceptions of 'composition' those new media bring. And they offer practical applications taken from their own classroom assignments to make their theorizing more concrete." (Amazon.com)

Multimodal Composition

"Multimodal Composition is designed to help teachers of English composition expand the modalities on which they and their students draw, to go beyond the limits of texts that rely primarily on words, and to enjoy exploring the affordances-the special capacities - of video, image and sound. This book offers faculty practical help on creating multimodal assignments and working within digital composing environments." (Amazon.com)