The main focus of this post is to explain what a multimodal website is and how it works. The reason for this multimodal website is to focus on my writing process throughout my English Composition I course at Delaware County Community College. I will be referring to the following links in the text:
How to Create a Weebly Website (Video Tutorial) All Writing is Multimodal (Cheryl Ball and Colin Charlton) It's All C.R.A.P: Four Principles of Design (Think Around Corners) Assessing Multimodal Student Work (Kent State University)
This multimodal website will focus on the holistic assessment of my writing. Holistic assessment is an overview of both the writing process and the product. The overlap of process and product is the portfolio which will be posted on this website. Multimodal writing is defined by Cheryl Ball and Colin Charlton as multiple ways of making meaning, or communicating. There are five modes through which ideas can be communicated: Linguistic, Aural, Visual, Gestural, and Spacial. Ball and Charlton argue that all writing is multimodal. It uses multiple modes to make meaning. I agree with this claim because I feel like every interaction whether it is with another human or a text, there are multiple modes in play at all times. Some people use linguistic and visual at the same time, like if a professor is giving a slideshow presentation, or if you are showing your friend a picture. Another multimodal interaction I see often is people who talk and use their hands to act out what they are talking about at the same time. This type of interaction uses both linguistic and gestural. Multimodal writing does not have to be digital, although it is easier to see it that way, posters, brochures, and books can be multimodal as well. In my opinion, the most important mode is visual because everyone can understand visuals. Babies can see things around them and react to them and illiterate people do the same. No teaching is necessary to understand visuals. The second most important mode is gestural. Gestures can be understood through language barriers and even species. There are gestures that you can make to a dog and they will understand what you mean. Third most important is linguistic. Being able to speak and communicate with words is the most efficient way of communication, but can only be understood by people who speak the same language that you do. Next is aural, it is communication through sound which does happen sometimes between humans but when I think of aural, I immediately think of the interaction between humans and animals. Spatial communication, i feel, is the least important of the five modes. It is a subset of visual because you can, for the most part, only tell space by being able to see. T The C.R.A.P acronym stands for the four principles of design. Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, and Proximity. Using these four design elements will help to make good designs that are pleasing to look at and make people want to pay attention to them. Repetition is a 5 on a 1-5 scale of importance in a design because it makes a design look cohesive. I would say that alignment, contrast and proximity are all a 4. They are definitely all very important but not on the same level of importance as repetition. The seven criteria that Borton and Huot suggest writers use when assessing multimodal writing are purpose, organization, tone, organization, transitions, synthesis and detail. These criteria are the same we would use to assess a traditional print essay because they are a good holistic assessment of composition.
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Sabatino
1/27/2020 01:06:22 pm
Glad to see content here. Let's touch base in class on Tuesday. Sound good?
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