In “The Low Bridge to High Benefits: Entry-Level Multimedia, Literacies, and Motivation,” Daniel Anderson makes an argument for assigning multimedia projects drawing from what we know about the connections between literacy and motivation. Anderson begins his article with a quote from The New London Group which explains that for learning to occur, there must be both […]

If Jeff Rice’s “The 1963 Composition Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Computed, or Demonstrated by Any Other Means of Technology” was a glimpse of Composition Studies through the lens of one moment, that of 1963, Kathleen Blake Yancey’s “Made Not Only in Words: Composition in a New Key,” originally delivered as the 2004 Chair’s address […]

As I suggested in the preface to the week, found both on the Week 8 schedule and week’s first lecture, all four this week’s readings offer an answer to McLuhan’s question, posed in his 1962 publication The Gutenberg Galaxy, “What will be the new configurations of mechanisms and of literacy as these older forms of perception […]

“What will be the new configurations of mechanisms and of literacy as these older forms of perception and judgment are interpenetrated by the new electric age?” – Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man, 330 “Wherever they may be institutionally situated, scholars in composition today study written discourse in a wide variety […]