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This essay demonstrates the pedagogical value of the scrapbook for how it encourages student composers to select, appropriate, and redesign external cover materials to communicate the message inside the book and how it emphasizes the haptic sense (touch) . In short, the scrapbook assignment is pedagogically important because it teaches students the concept of affordances and demonstrates to them how materiality impacts design, composition, and rhetorical choices; it also provides a low-tech, low-stakes entry into multimodal composing and reflexivity on the rhetorical decision-making process.  \nDuring my first semester as an assistant professor, I integrated a multimodal assignment into my firstyear writing classrooms. I explained to students that a multimodal composition was one that incorporated multiple semiotic modes, such as audio, video, alphabetic text, or still images, to convey meaning. I had assigned multimodal projects as a graduate teaching assistant and had been pleased with how students negotiated the writing according to their audience, purpose, and rhetorical strategies. I had also recently created multimodal audio and video essays myself as part of a graduate course and was familiar with the process and some issues that may arise when integrating multimodal assignments (regarding access, time, revision, assessment). I was teaching in a traditional classroom at the time (it did not even have a projector), and I knew it would be a challenge to require students to create digital projects where some of these issues existed. I thus decided to allow students to create their multimodal essay in whatever medium they wanted (video essay, collage, comic strip, etc.) and to use whatever modes they chose (alphabetic text, still or moving images, sound, etc.) . The main requirement was that students combined at least two modes (audio and video, text and image, etc.) into their composition. In this particular assignment, students were asked to interview and observe a person, place, activity, or future career and then compose a multimodal profile essay on this subject.  \nStudents created both digital and non-digital, or analog, essays. Digital projects ranged from video documentaries to audio essays, while analog essays included collages, scrapbooks, comic strips, and typed essays with images. As I assisted students throughout the creation and production of their multimodal compositions, one medium used by several students caught my attention: the scrapbook. The scrapbook is a somewhat common assignment in composition classrooms (e.g., Goodburn and Camp; Shipka,“Sound”) and composition textbooks (Faigley, George, Palchik, and Selfe) . The scrapbook assignment is perceived as less intimidating than large-scale audio and video projects, which makes it attractive to composition instructors interested in introducing multimodal composition into the classroom but who may not have the technical expertise, technological resources, or time to assign digital compositions. 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