Composition and Modality: The Evolution of Meaning

This video was a collaborative project in English 605 at Purdue University Calumet. The task was to convince a hypothetical audience of parents that their high-school children should take a college-credit semester in multi-modal composition. In this short video we hope to convince these parents that literacy is changing, and that the world of reading and writing today is vastly different from the one they grew up in. The message we want to convey is that children need to not only know how to write alphabetically, but to be able to compose and navigate in an increasingly complex, technological world. In using wiki, podcasts, texting, video, sound and many other forms of media, students today are altering the definition of literacy. We hope that parents can understand this, and we encourage them to embrace it.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• College Composition
• Multi-Modal Writing
• 21st Century
• Literacy