Hi, this is the second installment of my blog for my English Composition I class in which I will discuss a few things, mostly dealing with the creation and design of this web site, and also the subject of multimodal and how it could be applied to our work in this class, but mostly on our web sites. Most of the material that I used to write this blog can be found in the web sites that I have linked below.
I am creating a multimodal website to create a portfolio using process and product for a holistic assessment of my writing. This post could also help inform readers how to use the information in the websites I referenced to create a multimodal website of their own. Ball and Charlton define "multimodal" writing as any combination of the five modes through which meaning is made, makes a multimodal text, every piece of communication that a human composes, use more than one mode." Thus, all writing is multimodal. The idea of all writing being multimodal is an idea that I agree with, because if you think about the five modes through which meaning is made, you use two or more every time you write anything. The five modes through which to make meaning, arranged in order of importance:
Another pair of writers, Borton and Huot have a different list of criteria for assessing multimodal composition. The criteria are: BORTON AND HUOT: SAMPLE FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT CRITERIA The composition conveys a specific purpose. The composition identifies a specific audience—either explicitly or implicitly. The composition employs a tone consistent with the designated purpose and audience. The composition is organized around an appropriate controlling idea. This idea is clear to readers/viewers/listeners. The composition uses transitions to guide the audience effectively from one set of ideas to another. The composition synthesizes relevant information from research efforts with composer’s own ideas and arguments—in a way that increases the rhetorical effectiveness of the whole. The composition uses detailed description, examples, sound, music, color, and/or word choice to convey ideas in an effective and appropriate way to the audience. The criteria that Borton and Huot have proposed sound almost the same as criteria used to assess a traditional print essay, except for the last one, which talks about the use of sound, music and color to convey ideas. These obviously cant be used in a traditional print essay because there is no way embed sound or music in a print essay, not like you would do with anything having to do with a modern multimodal assignment. As to the design aspect of this blog, we were asked to read “It's All C.R.A.P: Four Principles of Design” and to explain what C.R.A.P. stands for so here it is:
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