In her essay The Movement of Air, the Breath of Meaning: Aurality and Multimodal Composing, Cynthia Selfe discusses a variety of important points. The thing that stands out to me most in the text is the need for a variety of teaching mediums. These would include things like audio, written text, images, etc. Her focus […]

In Kathleen Blake Yancey’s article, there is an abundance of useful information. One key takeaway for me was the idea that different types of writing are really just genres. As a music nerd, this comparison made sense. Email is inherently different than journalism in the same way jazz is inherently different than bluegrass. Our modern […]

Diana George’s From Analysis to Design: Visual Communication in the Teaching of Writing has a lot in common with some of the texts discussed in previous posts. One of these commonalities is simply the emphasis put on the importance of visual communication. George opens the text with a powerful anecdote of a teacher using maps […]