Writing with and in multiple media has become a regular part of our daily lives. Understanding multimedia in terms of the varying media we use to compose – digital media, pens and paper, and even the music we listen to when we write – opens up new ways of thinking about the equally varying ways we communicate and compose in a multimedia rhetorical world.
This course will work towards developing a familiarity with new ways of “composing” through an interrogation of the relationship between rhetoric, multimedia composition, and accessibility. We will use concepts from Disability Studies and Disability Rhetorics to frame the way we approach multimedia composition and the composing bodies involved in the composing process. This lens will allow us to recognize the role of our bodies as both authors and readers, calling attention to our rhetorical decisions around writing and engaging in various media. Furthermore, this lens will also allow us to engage in our obligation as rhetors to keep our audience in mind, as well as writing, composing, and structuring arguments in ways that will include diverse audiences. As such, we will practice these various communication styles in order to situate ourselves as better rhetoric scholars. Working within this context of disability will not only give us a way to talk about these concepts, but will also show us why a consideration of disability is important and necessary.
So many ways to write!
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