1) Imagine you have just been hired at an English department full of curmudgeons who don't buy this multimodal BS in the composition classroom. Do you think Ship's essay would have the potential to convince them that multimodal compositions belong in a freshman writing course?
2) As you read and process Inoue's essay, how do you think his argument and the research used in its support will inform the work you do in the composition classroom and RWC?
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Hi Annalisa,
ReplyDeleteI've been thinking about your second question. I believe that for a start, it would help to create awareness of the ways language is homogenized and the importance of recognizing diversity within Englishes so as to avoid racialization of language. I would love to include activities in which students write against a standardized form while also educating them, in a variety of ways, of how various Englishes have emerged as a product of a history of brutal colonization. Perhaps this will help humanize varieties of English.