House multimodality: banners, ravens, and scrolls
Before ENC 1101, I mostly thought “literacy” meant just reading and writing alphabetic text. In this course, I learned about multiple literacies, including visual rhetoric, multimodal composing, memes as a genre, and how layout and color are also rhetorical choices. I also learned to set clear goals for each project. Instead of “just finish it,” I tried to decide what I wanted my reader to feel, understand, or question.
🐉 multiple literacies & goal setting
In Westeros, power travels not only through speeches in the throne room, but also through banners, sigils, coins, rumors, and ravens. In the same way, this course taught me that literacy is not only about long paragraphs of text. Images, memes, trailers, layouts, and websites are all part of the game. With my Multimodal Literacy Narrative, meme Genre Analysis, and visual-based responses, I set clear goals: sometimes to move the reader emotionally, sometimes to explain a pattern, sometimes to make the invisible power of media visible. Learning to work with multiple modes felt like learning to command not just one army, but many.
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Artifacts to feature:
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Multimodal Literacy Narrative (because it uses image + text)
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Genre Analysis Essay – Memes as a Genre (“genres” file)
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One visual-heavy Quick Write or Discussion Post (for example: your response about Killing Us Softly 4 or visual rhetoric reading, if you wrote one)
“The trailer is a multimodal text that combines spoken dialogue, written text on the screen, music, camera angles, editing, and color. All of these modes work together to make an argument about Sloane’s identity and her power.”
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