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It’s Not Just About Convenience: Multimodality and Transmodality in the FYC Classroom

by Tara Salvati | Xchanges 19.2, Fall 2025


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Contents

Introduction

Defining Terms

Multimodality and Transmodality in the Classroom

Introducing Multimodality

Remixing and Revising

Providing Feedback

Equity, Time Management, and the Graduate Teaching Assistant

Affordances and Constraints of Multimodality and Transmodality

Personal Examples and Reflections

Conclusion

Works Cited

About the Author

Works Cited

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Artz, Kate, Danah Hashem, and Anne Mooney. “Transmodality in Action: A Manifesto.” Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, vol. 22, no. 1, 2017, https://kairos.technorhetoric.net/22.1/disputatio/artz-et-al/index.html.

Bolter, Jay David and Richard Grusin. Remediation: Understanding New Media. The MIT Press, 1999.

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Horner, Bruce, Cynthia Selfe, and Tim Lockridge. “Translinguality, transmodality, and difference: Exploring dispositions and change in language and learning.” Enculturation: Intermezzo, 2015.

Horowitch, Rose. “The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books.” The Atlantic, Nov. 2024, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/11/the-elite-college-students-who-cant-read-books/679945/.

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Muhlhauser, Paul and Tara Salvati. “Un-Rapunzeling Communication: Rhetorical Equity and Rhet/Comp Journal Practices.” The Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics, vol. 5, no. 1, 2021. https://journalofmultimodalrhetorics.com/5-1-issue-muhlhauser-and-salvati.

Muhlhauser, Paul, Daniel Schafer, and Cate Blouke. “May the #kairos Be With You: Accessibility, Authdi, Veils, and Star Wars.” Computers and Composition online, 2015, http://www.cconlinejournal.org/fall15/kairos/infographic.html.

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