College Composition and Communication Dec 2020

Embodied Subjectivities and the City: Intervening in Local Public Debates through Multimodality

Phillip Goodwin

Abstract

This article describes and reflects on a place-based pedagogical approach to public engagement that uses multimodal composition to insert new discourses into ongoing local debates over university expansion. The public-forming potential of multimodal texts encourages students to imagine new ways of being public and opportunities for adopting community-oriented subjectivities that engage with the issues, people, and spaces in neighborhoods adjacent to campus.

Journal
College Composition and Communication
Published
2020-12-01
DOI
10.58680/ccc202031036
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writing pedagogy service learning multimodality public rhetoric
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