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Since I wasn't able to make it to class on Monday, I've posted the notes I planned to present here. What follows is a summary of my reading, as well as some images and quotes pulled from the reading, mixed in with plenty of my own perspective and some questions this reading inspired me to pursue going forward. Strategic Discourse: The Politics of (New) Literacy Crises Edited by Lynn C Lewis “[T]he rhetorical power of the phrase ‘literacy crisis’ resides in its ability to condense a broad range of cultural, social, political, and economic tensions into one central image,” John Trimbur. Introduction by Lynn C. Lewis This collection uses as a launching point Justin Timbur’s 1991 essay “Literacy and the Discourse of Crisis” which analyzed the political and rhetorical dimensions of ways we talk about “crisis” in general and “literacy crisis” specifically. In the introduction,  Lewis describes talking to Timbur at the 2010 Watson conference. She told him that...

Here is my argument in relation to this book: Overall, the book just seemed a worst case scenario for delayed publishing (and worst case scenario for bad stuff happening with online publishing): for some reason all the work was from 2008 or 2009 and the book was published in 2012, and the topic of the book was multimodal composition and new media literacy. Everything seemed wack and outdated, and all the chapters were made in multimodal texts, so the way all the chapters were designed also seemed wack and outdated and difficult to navigate. For example, you couldn't navigate back to the book from any individual chapter, and all the chapters were designed in idiosyncratic ways. It generally arose this pet peeve of mine of scholars being multimodal for what appeared like no reason at all. Like it all reminds me of what Edward Tufte would refer to as chartjunk. Just random junk that you are including in visual displays that does nothing to enhance the message you are trying to ...

For this week, I chose "Camara Rhetorica: A Feminist Film-making Methodology for Rhetoric and Composition" by Purdue Alumnae Alexandra Hildago. Her book is dedicated to Pat and her pedagogy and Hildago regard the book as a part of Pat's legacy. In this book, Hildago curates moving images and fits them into the academic discourse and argues for the academic evaluation of her video book for the tenure promotion. Her book spans 6 different chapters that cover the aspects of feminist film-making, the taxonomy of filmmaking in rhetoric and composition, how filmmaking could be part of tenure / promotion. She ends the book with her argument about the future of filmmaking in rhetoric and composition. While she introduces the book she talks about how this book is for varied audiences and not just limited to the rhetoric and composition scholars. She begins her book with the introduction of the principles of feminist film making and what things should be taken care of whil...

Soundwriting Pedagogies Edited by Courtney S. Danforth, Kyle D. Stedman, & Michael J. Faris Soundwriting?  Sound writing is writing in sound. It's composing an audible text....a udible text that applies what we know about writing to the affordances of sound. Soundwriting includes and defies other genres . . .layering words, music, and sounds together. There's a lot going on right now with sound in rhetoric and composition studies. This book zeros in on one specific aspect of that groundswell of interest: using sound in writing studies pedagogy. Throughout this collection, contributors draw on the affordances of sound to theorize and share practices, so that they (and we) can make sense in ways that might not work in traditional, alphabetic written prose. I found soundwriting very new teaching pedagogy using non-traditional approach--using technologies.  Soundwriting pedagogy is very multimodal.  Contents: Introduction ...