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This study explores the benefits of multimodality in the drafting process and advocates for more disciplinary support of multimodality across first-year writing curriculums in the field of Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies. I explore my primary research question, how might multimodal drafting through the Literacy Sponsors Gallery Wall assignment support students' process of writing the Literacy Narrative, through an IRB-exempt study of the implementation of an original multimodal writing assignment, the Literacy Sponsors Gallery Wall, in my first-year writing classroom during the Fall 2021 semester. The results of this study illuminate valuable opportunities for multimodality to be integrated into the composition classroom during the writing process rather than it being utilized primarily as a transformative tool once the writing process has concluded. When multimodality is included as a natural aspect of the writing process, it allows more room for students to express and celebrate their multiliterate identities. / Master of Arts / Most of the time, writing assignments in academic contexts are limited to page-bound essays of block text. This is because of tradition and the cultural belief that this type of writing is the only mode, or format, worthy of value in a classroom. But that is not necessarily the case. Multimodal writing, i.e., more visually stimulating compositions that combine more than one mode of communication, are generative for student writers. However, multimodality is usually seen as a "last but not least" aspect of a draft's life cycle, meaning it is employed once the draft has been completed and is used to transform the draft into a more visual mode (infographic, poster, etc.). In this paper, I argue that multimodality should be taken up more in the field of Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies and embraced as a worthy aspect of the drafting process. I created a qualitative study in which I evaluated how multimodal drafting acts as a beneficial scaffolding tool for teachers.

This qualitative study explored how teachers used graphic novels to encourage student engagement in learning. A case study approach was used to achieve my two research objectives: 1) to examine current research about graphic novels and pedagogical understandings relevant to the study of graphic novels as a pedagogical resource, and 2) to identify the pedagogical understandings of four secondary language arts teachers using graphic novels to encourage student engagement in learning. Action research framed the approach used to examine the collaborative practices of four teacher participants and myself as we learned about graphic novels. Interviews, focus groups, observations, and artifact analysis all contributed to highlighting the pedagogical understandings of the participants. The findings confirmed previous scholarship that graphic novels can be a beneficial pedagogical tool in ELA classrooms, further encouraging student engagement in learning and valuing students out of school interests. The findings also confirmed that teachers go through a unique, collaborative, and at times, individualized process of learning before teaching a new resource, but when preparing and sharing graphic novels with students preferred to frame the learning using before, during, and after comprehension strategies and activities to present their units. The findings also affirmed that resource selection and evaluation was highly influenced by the teachers prior-interests and understanding of curriculum. The study also produced some interesting findings that suggested the need for pre-service and in-service professional development opportunities around graphic novels so that teachers can be prepared to support and growing multimodal and multiliterate population. Furthermore, and unexpectedly, the participants each developed a passion for graphic novels where they previously had none and all continue to use graphic novels in their classrooms and read them for pleasure.

The purpose of this study was to investigate museum learning by describing the experiences of selected museum visitors who viewed a specified exhibit. The research question is: How does a museum exhibit function as a literacy event for viewers? The responses to interview questions described what viewing was like for two subjects. The paradigm for this research is New Literacy Studies (NLS). NLS considers the cultural issues surrounding literacy experiences. NLS assumes that language arts reflect cultural differences and literacy involves the process of constructing meaning (Barton, Hamilton, & Ivanic, 2000; Gee, 2000; Street, 1995). This model of literacy considers three factors of literacy: the literacy practice, the literacy event and the text (Barton & Hamilton, 2000). The literacy practice for this dissertation was museum visiting. The literacy event was viewing one museum exhibit. Through research in multiliteracies (Cope & Kalantzis, 2000), objects and written discourse constituted the text. Two high school subjects spent 15 minutes viewing a specified exhibit on separate occasions. They were asked seven questions designed to aid their recall. The Contextual Model of Learning (Falk & Dierking, 2000) was used for describing the phenomenon and for the analyses of the data. The Contextual Model of Learning describes museum learning as the interaction of three spheres: the Physical Context, the Personal Context, and the Socio-cultural Context. The Physical Context was analyzed through narrative description, the Personal Context through micro-analysis (Corbin, 1998; Miles & Huberman, 1994), and the Socio-cultural Context through Critical Discourse Analysis (Fairclough, 1995; Meyer, 2001; van Dijk, 2001; Wodak, 2001). The results show the Physical Context of a museum exhibit facilitates viewers in accessing their Personal and Socio-cultural Contexts to make meaning. The data indicated the subjects of this study formed global concepts, supported main ideas with specific details, constructed cause and effect relationships, formed comparisons, and engaged in other types of cognitive behaviors as they interacted with the text. The results also indicated that the Contextual Model of Learning would best describe the literacy event if the model showed the dominance of the Personal and Socio-cultural Contexts over the Physical Contents.

As multimodal composing plays more prominent roles in academic, professional, and public life, writing centers are challenged to take on multiliteracy work, and some have even gone so far as to redefined themselves as multiliteracy centers. However, writing centers that take on this work will find process theory, which has dominated writing consulting since the 1970s, inadequate for the task. A study of the history of the higher- and lower-order concern prioritizing strategy demonstrates the shortcomings of process pedagogy-based tenets of writing center practice. They represent historical vestiges of the field’s struggle for disciplinary legitimacy rather than a response to exigencies of composing. Teaching multiliteracies instead demands a rhetoric-based approach. This project explores what such an approach would mean for the writer/consultant interaction, consulting staffs, the writing center’s institutional identity, and centers' role in the public sphere. I redefine the role of writing consultant as rhetoric consultant and propose a writing/multiliteracy center-specific pedagogy of multimodal design. The focus then turns to finding definitions of centers that can shape their evolving identities and construct multiliteracy work as integral rather than an add-on. Drawing upon Kenneth Burke’s frames of acceptance, I examine the limitations of the field’s defining mythologies and propose a way forward in identity formation, shaping definitions of writing/multiliteracy centers that are at once stable and flexible. Finally, this project argues for a fresh interpretation of the center’s core identity as a democratizing force. John Dewey's definition of publics helps to define the field's democratizing mission as a project of extending access to education to diverse groups of people. Projected growth in the number and diversity of higher education enrollments offers writing/multiliteracy centers important opportunities to shepherd underrepresented groups through college. However, a more ambitious democratizing mission stands within reach: the changing landscape of composing challenges centers to support composers who want to take active roles in the public sphere. This project proposes pedagogical shifts that make public work possible. / text

Scholars suggest that when students use information and communication technology to complete and present identity texts about their own cultural background, such as self-authored literature, artwork, and multi-media texts, they learn about themselves and others and they can improve literacy skills and proficiency with technology (Chow & Cummins, 2003; Cummins, 2006). In this exploratory case study five middle-school students attending a diverse inner city school, and each representing a different demographic, were asked to complete an identity text project. In question was whether they would consume or critically deconstruct the negative hegemonic discourses they might encounter in the process. Results indicated that student response to these discourses was inconsistent, that students minoritized as black were especially vulnerable to them, and that student-led constructivist projects like this should be preceded by effective inclusive schooling and media literacy pedagogy to help ensure student engagement with multi-literacies is enhanced as intended.

Scholars suggest that when students use information and communication technology to complete and present identity texts about their own cultural background, such as self-authored literature, artwork, and multi-media texts, they learn about themselves and others and they can improve literacy skills and proficiency with technology (Chow & Cummins, 2003; Cummins, 2006). In this exploratory case study five middle-school students attending a diverse inner city school, and each representing a different demographic, were asked to complete an identity text project. In question was whether they would consume or critically deconstruct the negative hegemonic discourses they might encounter in the process. Results indicated that student response to these discourses was inconsistent, that students minoritized as black were especially vulnerable to them, and that student-led constructivist projects like this should be preceded by effective inclusive schooling and media literacy pedagogy to help ensure student engagement with multi-literacies is enhanced as intended.

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Orientador: Roxane Helena Rodrigues Rojo / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-23T14:44:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Santos_FrancineEloisa_M.pdf: 9241322 bytes, checksum: 0ab99f2484b0f48f594c1aad424c976a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: Essa dissertação de mestrado discute a questão da pedagogia dos multiletramentos na nova Proposta Curricular do Estado de São Paulo, implantada em 2008, e investiga como se dá a concretização dessa nos Cadernos do Professor de Língua Portuguesa do Ensino Fundamental/Ciclo II. Com base na teoria da pedagogia dos multiletramentos e diante dos novos desafios da contemporaneidade dos textos que apresentam uma multiplicidade de linguagens, semioses e mídias; perguntamo-nos se (e como) a Proposta Curricular do Estado de São Paulo abordaria essa questão e se essa também estaria presente nos Cadernos do Professor. Temos como corpus dessa pesquisa, então, os 16 Cadernos do Professor de Língua Portuguesa do Ensino Fundamental II produzidos pela Secretaria de Educação do Estado de São Paulo e publicados em 2009. Olhamos também neste trabalho para a questão da diversidade cultural, como e se é abordada nesta Proposta Curricular, também sob a ótica dos multiletramentos / Abstract: This dissertation discusses the pedagogy of multiliteracies in the new Curriculum Proposal of the State of São Paulo, deployed in 2008, and investigates how it works in the textbooks for Portuguese Language Teacher of Elementary Education / Cycle II. Based on the theory of multiliteracies pedagogy and facing the new challenges of contemporary texts that present a multiplicity of languages, semioses and media, we wonder if (and how) the Curricular Proposal of the State of São Paulo would address this issue and if this would also be present in the teacher's textbooks. We have a corpus of this research, then, the 16 books of the Portuguese Language Teacher of Elementary Education II produced by the Education Department of the State of São Paulo and published in 2009. In this dissertation, we also look at the question of cultural diversity, and how it is addressed in this Curriculum Proposal, also from the perspective of multiliteracies / Mestrado / Lingua Materna / Mestra em Linguística Aplicada

In this study, I used a lens of performance theory to examine the creative collaborative processes of middle school students who composed digital videos. More specifically, I investigated the multiliteracies involved in a filmmaking camp and how students performed those literacies in ways that influenced the composition processes and the resulting texts. In order to study collaborative composition processes, I used ethnographic methods. In order to analyze data, I employed a mixed methodology of constant comparative analysis and dramaturgical analysis of interactions in three main informant groups in order to understand how students used multiple literacies to influence the composition processes and products. During these processes, students employed tactics and style to gain authority over designing group attention to their ideas. This resulted in an overall model of PAID Attention (paying attention, attracting attention, immersing attention, and designing attention). The use of influential literacies in this project was two-fold: students used literacies to influence texts, and as a result, those texts required the students' attention. Furthermore, when the students paid attention to the emerging task-at-hand, they were able to gain authority and agency for designing attention (to their texts by an audience) through influential performances of literacies. As found in this study, these patterns were not a solid package of cultural norms. Rather, the style emerged with the text and transformed with the different multiliteracies required during composition processes as students performed literacy knowledge. This study initiated an examination of influential literacy performances as the use of creative tactics during collaborative composition processes. I recommend further work examining multiliteracies as knowledge performances in a variety of settings in order to develop models to help students influence texts with their creative ideas and gain authority in collaborative groups.