The Melancholy Odyssey of a Dissertation with Pictures

Pedagogy Jan 2015

The Melancholy Odyssey of a Dissertation with Pictures

Melanie Lee

Abstract

This informed opinion piece discusses the author’s dispiriting experience filing the first hybrid dissertation at Ohio University. “Document Format Checklist” guidelines enforced a “rhetoric of distance” between pictures and words—compulsory logos-centrism. Specifications for projects like the author’s that blend images with text did not exist, and staff responsible for document approval at her graduate college insisted that she follow their guidelines. While her advisers’ communications with the graduate college and council eventually resulted in revised guidelines that included two new options for filing multimodal dissertations, her project continued to meet resistance when she tried to file it following these new options.

Journal: Pedagogy
Published: 2015-01-01
DOI: 10.1215/15314200-2799228
Open Access: Closed
Topics: multimodality argument

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