The first document is about multimodal composing. There are five modes to multimodal composing and the article lists them as follows. The first is the Visual mode, as the name suggests it refers to what an audience can see. This could involve moving and still images, colors, and alphabetical text and style. An example of the visual mode would be social media photos. The second mode is the linguistic mode, this one refers of alphabetical texts or spoken words. This mode emphasizes language and how words are used (verbally or written). A common example of this mode would be the traditional five paragraph essay.
The third mode is referred to as the spatial mode, which is about how a text deals with space. It also relates to how other modes are arranged, organized, emphasized, and contrasted in a text. The gestural mode refers to gestures and movement. This mode is about how one delivers themselves in speeches, by sending messages to the crowd with either hand gestures, facial expressions, and body language. The fourth mode is known as the aural mode, and it refers to what an audience can or cannot hear. The most obvious example of the aural mode is music, but another example of the aural mode would be the absence of sound. Many other examples of the aural mode would include, podcasts, music videos, concerts, television series, movies, and radio talk shows. Multimodal composing is important because it helps students with digital literacy skills, it offers them an opportunity to transfer multimodal composing experiences from home to academic settings, and it allows students to learn “real life” composing practices.
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