Composing Technologies
Although graphite was discovered in fifteenth century Bavaria, modern prototypes of this common writing utensil emerged in the late 1700s.
What is a pencil?
This mode includes elements like music and sound effects.
What is audio?
According to the New London Group, these texts combine different modes of communication, such as text, images, and audio, to convey meaning.
What are multimodal texts?
What is fanfiction?
This mode includes elements like colors, page layouts, and screen formats.
What is visual?
Though the term was popularized by Lloyd Bitzer in the 1960s, concerns about this have been fundamental to rhetoric since antiquity.
What is the rhetorical situation?
Invented by Larry Tesler and Tim Mott while developing the Gypsy Word Processor, this function is now an indispensable part of digital word processing.
What is copy and paste?
This mode includes elements like delivery, vocabulary, structure, and coherence.
What is linguistic?
This term, central to rhetorical situations, describes the urgency or problem that prompts someone to write or speak.
What is exigence?
This device, popularized in the 1980s, allows the transmission of scanned documents via telephone lines, bridging the gap between digital and paper communication.
What is a fax machine?
This mode includes elements like body language, behavior, and feelings.
What is gestural?
What is multimodal?
his wedge-shaped script, one of the earliest forms of writing, was developed by the Sumerians around 3400 BCE.
What is Cuneiform
This mode contains environmental and geographical spaces as well as arrangement and proximity.
What is spatial?
This pedagogical approach emphasizes the importance of understanding and using multiple forms of communication, including traditional literacy, digital literacy, and visual literacy
What is multiliteracies?