Multimodality in higher education / edited by Arlene Archer, Esther Odilia Breuer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Archer, Arlene, editor.

Breuer, Esther Odilia, 1971- editor.

Series:

Studies in writing ; v. 33.

Studies in writing ; volume 33

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Academic writing.

Education, Higher--United States.

Education, Higher.

United States.

Communication--Methodology.

Communication.

Physical Description:

xi, 258 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

Summary:

Multimodality in Higher Education theorizes writing practices and pedagogy from a multimodal perspective. It looks at the theoretical and methodological uptake of multimodal approaches in a range of domains in Higher Education, including art and design, architecture, composition studies, science, management accounting and engineering. Changes in the communication landscape have engendered an increasing recognition of the different semiotic dimensions of representation. Student assignments require increasingly complex multimodal competencies and Higher Education needs to be equipped to students with these texts. Multimodality in Higher Education explores the changing communication landscapes in Higher Education in terms of spaces and texts, as well as new processes of production and creativity in the new media. Book jacket.

Contents:

Ploughing the field of higher education: an interview with Gunther Kress / Anders Bjorkvall

The past in the present: modes, gaze and changing communicative practices in lectures / Lucia Thesen

Aspects of multimodality in higher education monographs / Tuomo Hiippala

Multimodality, argument and the persistence of written text / Lesley Gourlay

Multimodal academic argument: ways of organising knowledge across writing and image / Arlene Archer

Genre inside/genre outside: how university students approach composing multimodal texts / Bronwyn T. Williams

Writing against formal constraints in art and design: making words count / Simon Bell

Image theatre to reclaim the authorial self in academic writing / Aditi Hunma

Intersemiosis and evaluation in science writing / Leo Roehrich

Multimodal literacy and numeracy practices in postgraduate management accounting / Hesham Alyousef and Peter Mickan

'Drawn writing': the role of written text in civil engineering drawing / Zachary Simpson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Multimodality in higher education

ISBN:

9789004312050

9004312056

OCLC:

948878411