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Hello, and welcome to the second blog of many! This blog post is about learning how to create a multimodal website and answering eight questions based on multimodal work. The video tutorial, How to Create a Weebly Website was the starting point to a multimodal website. Multimodal work is defined by Cheryl Ball and Colin Charlton in an article titled All Writing is Multimodal. The article, It’s All C.R.A.P: Four Principles of Design from Think Around Corners, defines what the C.R.A.P. acronym stand for and how it can help create a multimodal website. An article from Kent State University titled Assessing Multimodal Student Work outlines seven criteria for assessing a multimodal work.
Questions About the Four Readings Why are we creating a website for our English Composition I course? This website will be a digital portfolio for my English Composition I writing pieces and to grow and expand as a writer. How do Ball and Charlton define "multimodal" writing? Multimodal means multiple modes. Ball and Charlton consider “multimodal” writing as a combination of modes, or communication techniques. Ball and Charlton state there are five modes: linguistic, spatial, visual, aural, and gestural. Do you agree with Ball and Charlton when they claim "all writing is multimodal"? I agree with Ball and Charlton’s claim that “all writing is multimodal” because the five modes are widely used around the world. An example of this is social media. Social media uses comments as the linguistic mode, photo layouts as the spatial mode; photos, emojis, and other images as a visual mode, audio clips or videos as aural modes, and hand or other body movements as gestural modes. As a web site author who will create your own web page content in this course, how would you rank the importance of the five modes on a scale of 1-5? Please provide a brief rationale to support each mode ranking. I believe all of these deserve a 5 because they’re all crucial elements that bounce off or complement each other. The linguistic mode and aural mode go hand-in-hand because you have to think about what you want to say to your audience, and the message has to be clear. In order to do that, some people may write down what they plan on saying before it leaves their mouth. Visual and gestural modes rely on the spatial mode. If there’s too much space, a person may be overwhelmed to make an attempt to fill the empty spaces with content or gestures that could be irrelevant to what they actually meant, causing readers to lose the author’s point. If there’s too little space, the reader may consider the author’s point to be trivial compared to other matters that currently circle society. What does the C.R.A.P. acronym stand for? C.R.A.P. stands for contrast, repetition, alignment, and proximity. Contrast means different elements stand out from each other. Repetition means to use the same element all over a piece of work. Alignment is the placement of items, which makes content easier to read. Proximity is the association of items. As a web site author who will create your own web page content in this course, how would you rank the importance of the four C.R.A.P. principles of design on a scale of 1-5? Please provide a brief rationale to support each design principle ranking. Contrast- 5 Contrast helps direct a reader’s attention to specific details of the author’s content. Repetition- 4 Very important for readers to easily categorize specific words of a blog together. Alignment- 5 Same as content, this helps a reader navigate definitive points of a work. Proximity- 3 Sometimes, having a mixture of different associations can be beneficial. What are the seven sample criteria Borton and Huot suggest writers use to assess a multimodal composition? Sample criteria Borton and Huot suggest to use to assess multimodal composition are purpose, audience, tone, organization, transitions, synthesis, and detail. Do the Borton-and-Huot criteria seem similar or different from the criteria we would use to assess a traditional print essay? Why or why not? The Borton and Huot criteria to assess multimodal works seen similar to the criteria of a traditional print essay. A traditional print essay needs a writer’s thesis, or purpose. They need to organize the content of each paragraph and need to transition between the end of a new paragraph. They need to know what the tone of their paper should be and who is going to read their paper. The author needs to determine how to synthesize their work and others work in order to create a solid paper. A writer’s paper needs to have a sufficient amount of detail in order for the reader to understand their claim.
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