Composing Technologies
Modes of Communication
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Although graphite was discovered in fifteenth century Bavaria, modern prototypes of this common writing utensil emerged in the late 1700s.

What is a pencil?

100

This mode includes elements like music and sound effects.

What is audio?

100

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?

200
In the 18th century, readers composed this type of literary work for Gulliver's Travels. Today, you're more likely to find it published online.

What is fanfiction?

200

This mode includes elements like colors, page layouts, and screen formats.

What is visual?

200

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?

300

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?

300

This mode includes elements like delivery, vocabulary, structure, and coherence.

What is linguistic?

300

This term, central to rhetorical situations, describes the urgency or problem that prompts someone to write or speak.

What is exigence?

400

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?

400

This mode includes elements like body language, behavior, and feelings. 

What is gestural?

400
In the chapter, Fitzgerald and Ianetta argue that writing is always already this.

What is multimodal?

500

his wedge-shaped script, one of the earliest forms of writing, was developed by the Sumerians around 3400 BCE.


What is Cuneiform

500

This mode contains environmental and geographical spaces as well as arrangement and proximity.

What is spatial?

500

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?