In English 431 we’ll learn to apply the principles of rhetoric to examine and design multimodal digital artifacts appropriate to both professional and civic purposes, audiences, and contexts. Ultimately, this knowledge will enable us to become more critically and rhetorically informed consumers and producers of multimedia arguments in our daily lives.
Over the next 16 weeks, we will learn to:
- Consider critically and rhetorically the unique affordances and constraints of diverse modalities of writing (alphabetic, visual, aural).
- Identify how digital technologies and contexts influence multimodal writing processes and products.
- Analyze how digital multimodal genres draw from and remediate older forms of writing.
- Adapt digital multimodal composing to address audiences’ unique needs, beliefs, experiences, abilities, and aesthetic tastes.
- Revise writing and design in light of feedback from peers and learn to give useful feedback to peers.
- Engage in discussions of the rhetorical effectiveness of various digital multimodal texts
- Reflect on processes for inventing, drafting, and revising digital multimodal texts.
- Consider the ethical and legal responsibilities of writers in a digital age, particularly when publishing to the web.
- Employ effective practices of design and rhetoric to compose and publish multimodal texts (on the web) for audiences beyond the classroom.
- Explore how the unique digital literacies and skills developed/honed in 431 can be used for civic engagement and change in our communities
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