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Understanding and Composing Multimodal Projects: A Supplement for A Writer's Reference
This version of the best selling college handbook will help students who are assigned to compose or look critically at multimodal texts such as Web sites, video essays, public service announcements, ads, collages, slideshow presentations, and more. This version includes plenty of models that instruct and activities that foster practice. What's more, it pays close attention to the project management, copyright, and delivery issues associated with multimodal work. Understanding and Composing Multimodal Projects is also available in a packageable, stand-alone booklet ( 978-1-4576-1779-9).
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112 pages, Paperback
First published July 20, 2012
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May 12, 2023
I'm having mixed emotions rating this 3 stars. I think I could bump it up to 4, but I'm not going to.
This book is a VERY thorough examination of how to do projects that are in all kinds of mediums: essays (of course), but also posters, advertisements, videos, podcasts, websites, flyers, photos and captions, etc. For each type, the writer walks college students (the intended audience) through questions they should ask themselves and considerations to be made before working on a multimedia project. Yes, who is the intended audience and what are the project's requirements? But also, how to create emphasis, how to organize resources, how to split responsibilities on a group project, how to winnow down your ideas to something manageable. And also lots of ideas about how to go through the writing process with each type of multimedia project. There are event links to sample student projects. It's short but thorough, yes, but not fabulously engaging reading, even for an English teacher geek like me who loves multimedia projects. I'd read a page or two, then set the book aside for a week, then return to it to read another few pages. It's no-frills information (although there are lots of pictures and diagrams to illustrate the writer's points), but it's not like it's a thriller or anything, right? All the same, I plan to keep it on hand as a reference guide for my own teaching.
This book is a VERY thorough examination of how to do projects that are in all kinds of mediums: essays (of course), but also posters, advertisements, videos, podcasts, websites, flyers, photos and captions, etc. For each type, the writer walks college students (the intended audience) through questions they should ask themselves and considerations to be made before working on a multimedia project. Yes, who is the intended audience and what are the project's requirements? But also, how to create emphasis, how to organize resources, how to split responsibilities on a group project, how to winnow down your ideas to something manageable. And also lots of ideas about how to go through the writing process with each type of multimedia project. There are event links to sample student projects. It's short but thorough, yes, but not fabulously engaging reading, even for an English teacher geek like me who loves multimedia projects. I'd read a page or two, then set the book aside for a week, then return to it to read another few pages. It's no-frills information (although there are lots of pictures and diagrams to illustrate the writer's points), but it's not like it's a thriller or anything, right? All the same, I plan to keep it on hand as a reference guide for my own teaching.
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