Multimodality

Books and articles on multimodal approaches to texts and textual practices



See my own blog on multimodality at http://multimodaltexts.blogspot.com/

Bolter, J. and Grusin, R. (1999). Remediation: Understanding New Media. Cambridge. Mass: MIT.

Finnegan, R. (2002). Communicating: the Multiple Modes of Human Interconnection. London and New York: Routledge.

Floch, J-M. (2000). Visual Identities. Continuum.

Gardner, H. (1982). Artful Scribbles. Basic Books.
Children's drawings and 'copying' from models.

Golomb, C. (2002). Child Art in Context: A Cultural and Comparative Perspective. American Psychological Association.

Heath, S.B. (2000). 'Seeing our Way into Learning'. Cambridge Journal of Education, 30,1: 121-131.

Jewitt, C. (2005). Technology, Literacy, Learning: A Multimodal Approach. Routledge.

Jewitt, C. and Kress, G. (2003). Multimodal Literacy. Peter Lang Publishing.

Kress, G. (2003). Literacy in the New Media Age. London and New York: Routledge.

Kress, G. ed. (2004). English in Urban Classrooms: A Multimodal Perspective on Teaching and Learning. Routledge.

Kress, G. (2005). Multimodality. Routledge.

Kress, G. and van Leeuwen, T. (1996). Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design. London and New York, Routledge.

Kress, G. and van Leeuwen, T. (2001). Multimodal Discourse: the Modes and Media of Contemporary Communication. London: Arnold.

Kress, G., Jewitt, C., Ogborn, J. and Tsatsaelis, C. (2001). Multimodal teaching and learning: The rhetorics of the science classroom. London and New York: Continuum.

van Leeuwen, T. (2000). 'It was just like magic - a multimodal analysis of children's writing'. Linguistics in Education, 10,3: 273-305.

LeVine, P. and Scollon, R. eds. (2004). Discourse and Technology: Multimodal Discourse Analysis (Georgetown University Round Table 2002 on Languages and Linguistics). Georgetown University Press.

New London Group. (1996). 'A pedagogy of multiliteracies: Designing social futures'. Harvard Educational Review. 66: 60-92.

O'Halloran, K. ed. (2006). Multimodal Discourse Analysis: Systemic Functional Perspectives. Continuum.

Oliver, R. (2005). 'Writing “In Your Own Words”: Children’s Use of Information Sources in Research Projects’ in G. Rijlaarsdam, H. van den Bergh, M. Couzijn (eds.) Effective Learning and Teaching of Writing. Amsterdam: Kluwer. (Revised version available at
http://www.childrensresearch.blogspot.com/)

Oliver, R. (2005). 'Writing as Design: Rethinking Writing from a Multimodal Perspective'. Paper presented at the Learning Conference, Grenada, Spain, 10-14 July.

Ormerod, F. and Ivanic, R. (2000). 'Texts in practices: Interpreting the physical characteristics of children’s project work'. In Barton, D., Hamilton, M. and Ivanic, R. (Eds.). Situated literacies: Reading and writing in context. London and New York: Routledge.

Ormerod, F. and Ivanic, R. (2001). 'Materiality in children’s meaning-making practices'. Visual Communication, 1: 65-9.

Raney, K. (1994). Visual Literacy: Issues and Debates. Middlesex University.

Selfe, C. (2006). Multimodal Composition: Resources for Teachers. Hampton Press.

SEDA (Staff and Educational Development Association UK), ‘The Patchwork Text: a Radical Re-assessment of Coursework Assignments’, in Innovations in Education and Teaching International (IETI), 40: 2.

Sharples, M. (1999). How We Write: Writing as Creative Design. London and New York: Routledge.

Shipka, J. (2005). 'A Multimodal Task-Based Framework for Composing'. College Composition and Communication, 57: 277-306.

Tonfoni, G. (2000). Writing as a Visual Art. Exeter: Intellect.

Yancey. K.B. (2004). ‘Made Not Only in Words: Composition in a New Key’. College Composition and Communication, 56: 2.

See the National Council for the Teaching of English Statement on Multimodal Literacy.

(See also 'Alternative Forms of Discourse' under 'Writing/Learning to Write' and the section on 'Intertextuality')