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While, strictly speaking, even a printed page of text is multimodal, the teaching of composition has begun to attend to the language of visuals. Some have suggested privileging only the linguistic mode limits the opportunity to engage in multiple symbols that create meaning and speak rhetorically. In
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This composition refers to work produced in digital spaces. The writer or speaker must not only consider all the composing processes of the above-mentioned discourse (like purpose, arrangement, etc.), but the relationship medium plays in the composing and decision process of that work. In digital
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of most composition classrooms. The rhetorical appeals also prove important in written texts, as the strategies of using these appeals become more complex as writers understand their audience's needs when not in physical view.
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discourse, the fifth canon of delivery takes on new meaning, and digital spaces change how traditional views of authority, circulation, and context are understood, like composing in a Knowledge. Thus digital rhetoric, or
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Typically, in any speech classroom, these stages are still prevalent in the composing process. Other such qualities to be included, especially when considering ones'
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Foss, Sonya (2004). "Framing the Study of Visual Rhetoric: Toward a Transformation of Rhetorical Theory". In Hill, Charles A.; Helmers, Marguerite (eds.).
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As oral discourse shifted to more written discourse, the stage of memory and delivery began to fade, yet the first three stages hold its rank in the
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thinking about how visuals are used to communicate, and how they are composed or analyzed in a rhetorical work, Foss argues that one considers:
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performances, and eventually essays, narratives, or genres of imaginative literature, but since the mid-20th century emergence of the field of
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have identified elements like the following as relevant to processes of composing language. This list is neither exclusive nor sequential:
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A copy of Aristotle's Rhetoric, printed in one of the earliest stages of the printing press.
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Nature, the present elements/physical features and suggested elements/concepts and ideas
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Traditionally, oratory, or classical rhetoric, is composed of five stages, or canons:
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Arrangement, strategic use of written, oral, visual and/or digital to inform,
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Ball, Cheryl E.; Charlton, Colin (2015). "All Writing is Multimodal".
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Bizzell, Patricia; Herzberg, Bruce, eds. (2001). "Acceptance".
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Martin Luther King Jr. performing oral discourse in his famous
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and methods of persuasion, would be the rhetorical appeals:
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Naming What We Know: Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies
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Conference on College Composition and Communication
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Justification, or reasoning in support of the topic
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English composition

verification
improve this article
adding citations to reliable sources
"Composition" language
news
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scholar
JSTOR
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oratorical
composition studies
narratology
rhetoric
composition studies
Goal
Outline
Theme
Dialogue
Characterisation
Setting
definitions
Style
mood
Voice
Tone
persuade

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