Six Years and Counting…

refereed article: Composition Studies

citation
Atkins, Anthony; Anderson, Daniel; Ball, Cheryl; Homicz Millar, Krista; Selfe, Cynthia; & Selfe, Richard. (2007, forthcoming). Integrating multimodality in composition curricula: Survey methodology and results from a CCCC Research Initiative grant. Composition Studies, 35(1).

abstract
This article describes methodology and outcomes of a national survey conducted in 2005 to discover how instructors use multimodal composition practices in their writing classrooms and research. The authors describe the procedures they used to collect and analyze data from writing teachers about the production, distribution, interpretation, and consumption of multimodal composition. Supported by a research initiative of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, the survey was designed to identify the instruction occurring at institutions with a nascent or established curriculum of multimodal pedagogy in which students and faculty members produce texts that combine words, images, and sound as composing resources. The aim of this project was to produce a snapshot of those programs working to define multimodal composition and to integrate these new semiotic forms into writing classes.

co-authors

• Dr. Anthony Atkins, University of North Carolina-Wilmington
• Dr. Daniel Anderson, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
• Krista Homicz Millar, PhD candidate, University of Michigan
• Dr. Cynthia Selfe, The Ohio State University
• Dr. Richard Selfe, The Ohio State University

contribution

• principle investigator on survey research
• 25% authoring on 40 manuscript pages
• contact author

publisher
Composition Studies is the “oldest independent periodical in its field.” See it’s website. The editors are Brad Lucas and Carrie Leverenz, and the journal is hosted at Texas Christian University.

accompanying materials
pre-press copy of article [PDF]

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