1. On page 75, Selfe proposes the use of the visual essay to expand student literacy outside of the alphabetic text or form essay. How can a university like OU integrate this into the curriculum with value? In other words, would it be wise to include a visual essay in the 30ish page requirement for English 151? Why or why not? And how?
2. Selfe states that students bring in their own literacies to the classroom, "literacies practiced in the home, the community , the church and online; literacies dependent on oral, visual, and aural performance; literacies based in multiple languages, cultures, and contexts" (57). What literacies should be included in the classroom? Is there a way to include all of them? Would that be beneficial?
Also, an informal one from Comstock and Hocks: "The combination of the music, the familiar schoolroom form of handwritten text on whiteboards, the smiles and the waving of hands all bring together this moment of closure into one gestalt of meaning where the modalities cannot be separated or you lose the irony of contrasts, the humor."--Did anyone else not get this from "Bertha?"
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