A review of general education at the author’s university led to an effort to include project- and theme-based interdisciplinary courses that addressed the “public good,” but many faculty resisted what they perceived as threats to purely disciplinary knowledge. When knowledge is under attack, professors in all disciplines should help prepare students to address problems in US democracy.

This is the text of the speech that NCTE President Doug Hesse gave at Annual Convention on November 17, 2016.

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By examining in turn a son’s craft project, a family photograph, and an image of tectonic plates, the authors demonstrate how objects can elicit rhetorical invention.

Doug Hesse has written a commentary on “The Movement of Air, the Breath of Meaning: Aurality and Multimodal Composing” by Cynthia L. Selfe, which appeared in College Composition and Communication 60.4 (June 2009): 616–63. The full text of the original article is available at the CCC website: www.ncte.org/cccc/ccc.

These four essays derive from presentations on a panel held at the CCCC Annual Convention in 2007.

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