Composition Studies 43.1 (Spring 2015) - Paperback

by Laura R. Micciche (Editor), Dale Jacobs (Editor)

CONTENTS OF COMPOSITION STUDIES 43.1 (Spring 2015) From the Editor Special Issue: Comics, Multimodality, and Composition, Dale Jacobs, Guest Editor Composing With: A Comic Strip Cover Story by Gary Weissman Composing the Uncollectible by Franny Howes ARTICLES: The Rhetoric of the Paneled Page: Comics and Composition Pedagogy by Gabriel Sealey-Morris Beyond Talking Heads: Sourced Comics and the Affordances of Multimodality by Hannah Dickinson and Maggie M. Werner Illustrating Praxis: Comic Composition, Narrative Rhetoric, and Critical Multiliteracies by Kathryn Comer The Work of Comics Collaborations: Considerations of Multimodal Composition for Writing Scholarship and Pedagogy by Molly J. Scanlon COURSE DESIGN: English 177: Literature and Popular Culture, The Graphic Novel by Leah Misemer ENGL 1102: Literature and Composition: Handwriting and Typography by Aaron Kashtan WHERE WE ARE: INTERSECTIONS: The Underdog Disciplines: Comics Studies and Composition and Rhetoric1 by Susan Kirtley Graphic Disruptions: Comics, Disability and De-Canonizing Composition by Shannon Walters Comics and Scholarship: Sketching the Possibilities by Erin Kathleen Bahl, Ohio State University BOOK REVIEWS: Comics and Composition, Comics as Composition: Navigating Production and Consumption Reviewed by Tammie M. Kennedy and Jessi Thomsen and Erica Trabold: Review of Contemporary Comics Storytelling, by Karin Kukkonen; Linguistics and the Study of Comics, edited by Frank Bramlett; Narrative Structure in Comics: Making Sense of Fragments, by Barbara Postema Multimodal Literacies and Graphic Memoir: Using Alison Bechdel in the Classroom, Reviewed by Janine Morris, Review of Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama, by Alison Bechdel; Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, by Alison Bechdel Re/Framing Identifications, edited by Michelle Ballif, Reviewed by Peter Brooks Understanding Rhetoric: A Graphic Guide to Writing, by Elizabeth Losh, Jonathan Alexander, Kevin Cannon, and Zander Cannon, Reviewed by Molly J. Scanlon DIY Citizenship: Critical Making and Social Media, edited by Matt Ratto and Megan Boler, Reviewed by Jason Luther Contributors