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Picturing Writing: The Transduction of Meaning Through Multimodal Literacy

Picturing Writing: The Transduction of Meaning Through Multimodal Literacy

Marilyn Buono-Magri
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 16
ISBN13: 9781522528081|ISBN10: 1522528083|EISBN13: 9781522528098
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2808-1.ch014
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Buono-Magri, Marilyn. "Picturing Writing: The Transduction of Meaning Through Multimodal Literacy." Visual Imagery, Metadata, and Multimodal Literacies Across the Curriculum, edited by Anita August, IGI Global, 2018, pp. 249-264. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2808-1.ch014

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Buono-Magri, M. (2018). Picturing Writing: The Transduction of Meaning Through Multimodal Literacy. In A. August (Ed.), Visual Imagery, Metadata, and Multimodal Literacies Across the Curriculum (pp. 249-264). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2808-1.ch014

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Buono-Magri, Marilyn. "Picturing Writing: The Transduction of Meaning Through Multimodal Literacy." In Visual Imagery, Metadata, and Multimodal Literacies Across the Curriculum, edited by Anita August, 249-264. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2808-1.ch014

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Abstract

Whether an image is still or moving, created digitally or by hand, it has the capacity to communicate ideas and emotions that are often difficult for a student to actualize in their writing, especially in a culture where the image seems to have become more ubiquitous than text. Therefore, when the visual becomes a primary component of the composition class, students learn to literally and figuratively read and design their worlds and words in different ways. As Kress (2003) observes, “The world told is a different world to the world shown” (p. 1). The implications for the integration of a multimodal approach to college writing are rich with potential. Moreover, for the Millennial college writer who is thought to be underprepared, the less prescribed and more widely inclusive approach offered through multimodal social semiotic theories offers tangible, liberatory, and egalitarian ways through which the notion of deficit can be repudiated.

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