Killing the hidden essay: Supporting disciplines to move to multimodal public communication assignments

Bartram, Jacqui; Fallin, Lee

Abstract

This chapter will consider the role of nondisciplinary, library-based professionals in supporting faculty academic staff and students in approaching public communication assignments in a way that values their multimodality—in particular, moving away from what we describe as “hidden essays” with visual elements ignored in favour of assessing the academic discourse within the textual content alone. We argue that visuals and formatting can play an important, if not equal, role in effective multimodal public communications and show, through two case studies, how our expertise has been applied

Citation

Bartram, J., & Fallin, L. (2024). Killing the hidden essay: Supporting disciplines to move to multimodal public communication assignments. In M. Murphy, S. Beene, K. Greer, S. Schumacher, & D. Statton Thompson (Eds.), Unframing the Visual: Visual Literacy Pedagogy in Academic Libraries and Information Spaces. Chicago, Ill.: Association of College & Research Libraries

• Online Publication Date: Feb 6, 2024
• Publication Date: Feb 6, 2024
• Deposit Date: Jan 4, 2024
• Publicly Available Date: Feb 26, 2024
• Book Title: Unframing the Visual: Visual Literacy Pedagogy in Academic Libraries and Information Spaces
• ISBN: 9780838939918
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4386234
• Publisher URL: https://alastore.ala.org/content/unframing-visual-visual-literacy-pedagogy-academic-libraries-and-information-spaces-0
• Contract Date: Aug 4, 2023