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Capturing the Dynamic Whole: Multimodal Composing Processes of Fashion Design Students

Rowell, Christina Elizabeth
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8238-0208
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent158593391681925

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2020, PHD, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of English.
Recent calls for composing process research have pointed to the current lack of empirical data on the broader activities and conditions that shape literate activity. Our understanding of the ways the different modes shape multimodal composing processes is even more thin. We know focusing on the final “frozen” product renders invisible the many intricacies that shift, shape, and alter composing processes, including how composers navigate their processes in the greater context of their lives. By failing to acknowledge these interactions, we struggle to see the dynamic whole of composing processes, along with the many affective, physical, and social dimensions of writing. My research on the multimodal composing processes of fashion design students aims to answer how these various modes shape the affective or cognitive experiences of a person while composing or evaluating their work. Drawing on the scholarship of Jody Shipka, Stacey Pigg, and Paul Prior, my dissertation uses thick description and video and screen capture recordings to produce three case studies. My research interrogates the relationship between the modes during composing processes and provides concrete examples of how environments shape composing, such as through the affordances spaces provide, how they tune consciousness towards the work at hand, and how tool choices reflect a complex ecology of agency, rather than merely representing idiosyncratic preferences. Participants in my study describe their affective responses to windows supplying natural light, the daily rhythms of commutes and food prep, and the many ways they arrange tools, fabrics, notebooks, computers, and other objects in various workspaces. Rather than letting these practices and affective elements slip into the background, my work situates them as central to the activity of composing. Through carefully documenting one participant’s workspace, with its wall mounted TV acting as a second computer monitor, computer accessories like a Wacom drawing tablet, and large open table space, my work demonstrates how the visual, the tactile, and the spatial interact to tune her to creativity by motivating her to continuously imagine possibilities for her designs and create sketches, portfolios, and garments.
Derek Van Ittersum (Committee Chair)
Pamela Takayoshi (Committee Member)
Sara Newman (Committee Member)
Kim Hahn (Committee Member)
Kristine Pytash (Committee Member)
248 p.
Composition; Design
Composing Processes; Multimodality, Multimodal Composition, Iteration, Invention, Workspaces, Tools, Affect, Agency, Glitch, Fashion Design

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  • Rowell, C. E. (2020). Capturing the Dynamic Whole: Multimodal Composing Processes of Fashion Design Students [Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent158593391681925

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Rowell, Christina. Capturing the Dynamic Whole: Multimodal Composing Processes of Fashion Design Students. 2020. Kent State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent158593391681925.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Rowell, Christina. "Capturing the Dynamic Whole: Multimodal Composing Processes of Fashion Design Students." Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent158593391681925

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