The syllabus is included here as it was delivered to students in 2022. Feel free to read it and get ideas from it. Please cite the instructor as the syllabus author where appropriate.

The Project Overviews

Here you will find the assignment overview sheets for each project. They are updated and improved upon as living documents in the classroom but here are the 2022 versions in the buttons below. Again please cite the instructor as author where appropriate.

The Readings

The readings for class come in two classifications: Required and Optional. The required texts are clustered around the mode we are focusing in on for each project and serve as a stand-in for a textbook. This was a choice made by the instructor with attention toward socioeconomic and technological issues of access.
The optional texts were started as an effort to give more to the graduate students who felt connections with the concepts in the course and wanted a deeper dive.

Required Texts by Project

Linguistic
DeVoss, D. N. (2017). On multimodal composing. (C. Ball, Ed.) Retrieved from Kairos: https://kairos.technorhetoric.net/21.2/praxis/devoss-et-al/post2.html
Gagich, M. (2020). An Introduction to and and Strategies for Multimodal Composing. In D. Driscoll, M. Stewart, & M. Vetter, Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing (Vol. 3, pp. 65-85). Anderson, South Carolina: Parlor Press. Retrieved from https://wac.colostate.edu/books/writingspaces/writingspaces3/
Sullivan, P. S. (2012). Postscript: Toward a Multimodal Composition. In P. S. Sullivan, Experimental Writing in Composition: Aesthetics and Pedagogies (pp. 147-159). Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press. doi:https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkdkr.9

Spatial
Yancey, K. B. (2004). Made Not Only in Words: Composition in a New Key. College composition and Communication, 56(2), 297-328. doi:https://doi.org/10.2307/4140651
Kress, G. (2000). Multimodality: Challenges to Thinking about Language. TESOL Quarterly, 34(2), 337-340. Retrieved from https://www.jstor.org/stable/3587959
Dezheng, F. (2011). Visual Space and Ideology: A Critical Analysis of Spatuial Orientations in Advertising. In K. O’Halloran, & B. A. Smith, Multimodal Studies : Exploring Issues and Domains, (pp. 55-75). New York: Routledge :Taylor & Francis Group.

Visual
Palmeri, J. (2012). Remixing Composition. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinios University Press. Retrieved from https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.elib.uah.edu/lib/uah/detail.action?docID=1979892
Lauer, C. (2009). Contending with Terms: “Multimodal” and “Multimedia” in the Academic and Public Spheres. Computers and Composition, 26, 225-239. doi:10.1016/j.compcom.2009.09.001
Cohn, J. (2020). Understanding Visual Rhetoric. In D. Driscoll, M. Stewart, & M. Vetter, Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing (Vol. 4, pp. 18-39). Anderson South Carolina: Parlor Press.

Aural
This Rhetorical Life. (2015, April 23). Episode 28: Transcription// Translation. Retrieved from This Rhetorical Life: https://thisrhetoricallife.syr.edu/episode-28-transcription-translation/
Selfe, C. L. (2009). The Movement of Air, the Breath of Meaning: Aurality and Multimodal Composing. College Composition and Communication, 60(4), 616-663.

Gestural
Mills, K. A., & Stone, B. G. (2020). Multimodal Attitude in Digital Composition: Appraisal in Elementary English. Research in the Teaching of English, 150-186.
Shepherd, R. (2020). What Reddit Has to Teach Us About Discourse Communities. (C. Ball, Ed.) Retrieved from Kairos: https://kairos.technorhetoric.net/24.2/praxis/shepherd/index.html

The Extras

Bitzer. (1968). The Rhetorical Situation. Philosophy & Rhetoric, 1(1), 1–14.

Ede, & Lunsford, A. (1984). Audience Addressed/Audience Invoked: The Role of Audience in Composition Theory and Pedagogy. College Composition and Communication, 35(2), 155–171. https://doi.org/10.2307/358093

Burke. (1962). A grammar of motives, and A rhetoric of motives. World Pub. Co.

Foucault, M. (1999). What is An Author. In M. Foucault, Aesthetics, Method, Epistemology (Essential Works Vol. 2) (pp. 205-222). New York: New York Press.

https://educationmuseum.wordpress.com/2013/03/12/roland-barthes-studium-and-punctum/

Derrida. (1978). Writing and difference. “Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences”. (pp. 351-370) University of Chicago Press.


Gates. (1988). The signifying monkey a theory of Afro-American literary criticism. “The Signifying Monkey and the language of Signifyin(g): Rhetorical Difference and the Orders of Meaning”. (pp. 44-88). Oxford University Press.

Sheridan, David M., Jim Ridolfo, Anthony J. Michel. (2005)The Available Means of Persuasion: Mapping a Theory and Pedagogy of Multimodal Public Rhetoric. JAC. Vol. 25, No. 4, (pp. 803-844) https://www.jstor.org/stable/20866716

Wysocki, & Jasken, J. I. (2004). What should be an unforgettable face. Computers and Composition, 21(1), 29–48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compcom.2003.08.004

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestuck — as an example of that which is inherently multimodal