Multimodal Pedagogical Approaches to Public Writing: Digital Media Advocacy and Mundane Texts

Authors

• Sarah Warren-Riley, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
• Elise Verzosa Hurley

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Summer 2017

Abstract

With the proliferation of digital media and other forms of technologically mediated communication, this article argues that critical multimodal pedagogical approaches to public writing—particularly through interrogating mundane, everyday texts—have the potential to engage students with advocacy and its role in shaping public discourse. In this article, we propose a pedagogy that views multimodal composition as advocacy. Because all texts are embedded with advocacy, encouraging students to recognize their own advocacy practices, and teaching them to carefully approach how they construct texts, we argue, may better prepare our students to be more social-justice minded public writers and rhetors in the future.

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© Copyright 2017 Sarah Warren-Riley and Elise Verzosa Hurley.
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Recommended Citation

Warren-Riley, Sarah, and Elise Verzosa Hurley. "Multimodal Pedagogical Approaches to Public Writing: Digital Media Advocacy and Mundane Texts." Composition Forum. Vol. 36. Association of Teachers of Advanced Composition, 2017.

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Composition Forum