Author: Traci Gardner

Connecting Selber and Halliday

Ever since I looked at the review of Stuart Selber’s Multiliteracies for a Digital Age in Composition Forum 14.2 (Courtesy of a tip from Bradley Dilger), I have been reflecting on my notes about M. A. K. Halliday’s literacy engagements.…

The Harm We Can Do

Sara Kadjer shared “Can Reading Logs Ruin Reading for Kids?” from The Atlantic. The piece dredged up some memories for me, good and bad. I guess I am an oddity, but I always loved tracking what I read when I…

Alphabetic Text as the Only Text

I’m befuddled by this MLA call for proposals for a volume on the Changing Role of Writing in Composition. Everything I understand about multimodal texts tells me that any alphabetic text is not tapping the linguistic mode alone; but from…