Genre: “naming a text as belonging to a particular genre helps situate that text within an interpretative framework” (2).
Key Terms
- Text-tool: “pieces of software and their interfaces” (4)
- Genre: “associated with film, video, games, photographs, and visual graphics, as well as with written works…Genres are ways for students to organize their experiences and, through identified conventions, relate those experiences to others within a particular social context. Thinking through genres can both constrain and open up student compositions” (5-6).
- Multimodal composing: “involves the conscious manipulation of the interaction among various sensory experiences – the visual, textual, verbal, tactile, and aural – used in the processes of producing and reading texts” (7).