The following pages will help you understand a variety of multimodal texts and will give you tools for analyzing multimodal works by others as well as for composing your own multimodal works.
What does it mean to “read” a text?
What is multimodal composing?
Composing hasn't changed
Composing has changed
Composing in college
Composing beyond college
A toolkit for analyzing and composing multimodal texts
It also offers
a process for analyzing multimodal texts
a vocabulary for analyzing multimodal texts
a process for producing multimodal texts
a close look at two students’ multimodal composing processes
a way of thinking about the relation between analyzing and producing multimodal texts
Effective compositions transcend specific software programs and digital spaces. If you can adopt the habits of carefully analyzing and crafting different types of texts, you will become a flexible, smart communicator who knows how to select the best tool for the job and the best techniques for the composing task at hand.