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What's In A Mode: Writing Program Administrators' Perception, Value, And Implementation Of Multimodality In First-Year Writing, Carolyn Alice Johnston
What's In A Mode: Writing Program Administrators' Perception, Value, And Implementation Of Multimodality In First-Year Writing, Carolyn Alice Johnston
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This study focuses on writing program administrators’ (WPAs) views towards the definition and value of multimodality within their first-year writing program curriculum. Furthermore, the study seeks to discover how first-year writing programs go about integrating a multimodal focus, including support structures that are in place, such as training, equipment, technology, and other resources. Multimodality has become a popular topic of discussion for those in Rhetoric/Composition, yet its program-wide implementation remains low. This study updates a 2005 study published in Composition Studies, which provided an overview of what participants labeled as multimodal or new media for their Composition classroom instruction (Anderson, …