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How Students Use Multimodal Composition to Write About Community

Smith, Mandy Beth
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1211985069

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2008, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Educational Theory and Practice.
This study of student compositions considers that there are more forms of text than traditional words, sentences and paragraphs of traditional printed text. The participants in this study created multimodal compositions about their communities using photographic text and musical text together with traditional printed text as a way to discuss their notions of community. The students wrote about their own communities as a way to dissect what constitutes a community and what the function of community is. Findings revealed that students considered that community is built on relationships between individuals who have a shared history rather than on geographic spaces or boundaries. Their writing indicated that because of these relationships between people in communities the function of a community is to help, support, and make individuals who they are. The study has implications in scholarly research as it considers construction and function of community. Further this study has implications for classroom pedagogy as it looks at how community can function in the teaching of multimodal composition.
David Bloome, PhD (Advisor)
Mollie Blackburn, PhD (Committee Member)
George Newell, PhD (Other)
218 p.
Literacy
literacy; multimodality; new literacy studies; figured worlds

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  • Smith, M. B. (2008). How Students Use Multimodal Composition to Write About Community [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1211985069

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Smith, Mandy. How Students Use Multimodal Composition to Write About Community. 2008. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1211985069.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Smith, Mandy. "How Students Use Multimodal Composition to Write About Community." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1211985069

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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