Toward a Composition Made Whole
ISBN: 9780822961505 | 0822961504
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr
Pub. Date: 4/28/2011
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To many academics, composition still represents typewritten texts on 8.5" x 11" pages that follow rote argumentative guidelines. InToward a Composition Made Whole,Jody Shipka views composition as an act of communication that can be expressed through any number of media and as a path to meaning-making. Her study offers an in-depth examination of multimodality via the processes, values, structures, and semiotic practices people employ everyday to compose and communicate their thoughts. Shipka counters current associations that equate multimodalit... MORE
| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| Introduction: Multimodality and Communicative Practice | p. 1 |
| Rethinking Composition/Rethinking Process | p. 18 |
| Partners in Action: On Mind, Materiality, and Mediation | p. 39 |
| A Framework for Action: Mediating Process Research | p. 57 |
| Making Things Fit in (Any Number of) New Ways | p. 83 |
| Negotiating Rhetorical, Technological, and Methodological Difference | p. 110 | ... MORE
| Conclusion: Realizing a Composition Made Whole | p. 130 |
| Appendix: Relevant Documents | p. 151 |
| References | p. 161 |
| Index | p. 175 |
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Jody Shipka is assistant professor of English at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
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