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Kraver  \nUniversity of Northern Colorado  \nA colleague of mine, who directs faculty development at the community college a few miles from my university, asked me recently to talk to members of her school's content-area faculty about methods to address a statewide mandate requiring that all their courses incorporate writing. Because I prepare English/Language Arts teacher candidates in methods of teaching writing to high school students, she figured I might have some tricks up my sleeve to assist faculty with this curricular challenge. Through this mandate, the state is nobly embracing the well-established notion that writing must be emphasized across the curriculum. At the same time, it is trying to achieve WAC \"on the cheap\" by circumventing the associated (and costly) commitment to smaller class sizes, institutionalized professional development, and a systematic support system. Soliciting my assistance was a way to support teachers in fulfilling this mandate, one class at a time.  \nIntegrating writing instruction into the content-area classroom poses a variety of challenges for instructors at all levels. Beyond the need to embrace a new skill set involving writing instruction, there is the resistance of students (and faculty) who find a disconnection between content-area and literacy learning. Teachers at the secondary and the post-secondary  \nlevels are familiar with students who complain, \"This isn't English, so why must I worry about my writing?\" Increasingly, students demand immediately practical learning. And, although we might lament the resulting \"commodification\" of learning we see among our students, understanding their concerns is vital if we are to convince them of the importance of writing in all their courses and prospective careers. However, developing a method for engaging resistant (sometimes even antagonistic) students in discipline-specific writing is simpler than one might imagine if we privilege less the literacy product and more the literacy learner--if we, in short, begin from the student's perspective. In all my classes—composition, English education, and American Literature--I do just that with what I reductively call the \"Stick Student.\" I think of the Stick Student as education’s answer to the Mobius Strip, a tool deceptive in its elegant simplicity. Although perhaps not so encompassing in its application as August Mobius' twisted paper the equally minimal Stick Student is another kind ofa simple visual that opens intriguing doors for students. And, as the Mobius Strip demonstrates, when one can visualize, the applications are seemingly endless.  \nMultimodality in the Headlines  \nThere is abundant and compelling research from a variety of sources and disciplines about the value of using visuals in teaching and learning. Not surprisingly, visual literacy has become oneof the \"hot\" new literacies with teachers who increasingly incorporate multimodal texts into the classroom. A variety of the composition textbooks touted by publishers reflects this emphasis: Costanzo's The Writer's Eye: Composition in a Multimodal Age (2007) is a recent example, and Ruszkiewicz, Anderson, and Friend's 2006 Beyond Words: reading and writing in a visual age  \n[sic], has already been highly revised for the second edition. Alongside the skills and processes students require for \"reading\" and \"writing\" texts, this new breed of textbooks offers instruction on \"seeing,\" \"visualizing,\" and \"designing.\" And, in the same way that composition textbooks have become multimodal, so, too, are the corresponding pedagogies. Notions of multiliteracy and multimodality are in direct response to the recognition that language--spoken and written--is but one of the multiple representational modes through which meaning is made, distributed, interpreted, and revised. Cary Jewitt explains in \"Multimodality and Literacy in School Classrooms (2008),\" \"Multimodality attends to","cbCaia6wTHM6bKBK","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaia6wTHM6bKBK","pdf",511284,22,"English","# Integrating Writing Across the Curriculum\n# Challenges in Content-Area Writing Instruction\n## Starting from the Student’s Perspective\n# The “Stick Student” and the Mobius Strip Analogy\n# Multimodality in the Headlines\n## Visual Literacy and Multimodal Texts\n## Multimodality and Meaning-Making\n# Mediating Multiple Modes\n## New London Group and Multiliteracies","[{\"question\":\"Why does the article focus on a statewide mandate requiring writing in all courses?\",\"answer\":\"It explains that instructors must fulfill a requirement to incorporate writing while often being pressured to do so without costly supports like smaller class sizes and systematic professional development.\"},{\"question\":\"What problem do teachers and students face when integrating writing into content-area classes?\",\"answer\":\"Students and sometimes faculty perceive a disconnect between the content area and literacy learning, leading to resistance such as asking why writing should matter in “non-English” courses.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the article use the “Stick Student” and the Mobius Strip analogy?\",\"answer\":\"It presents the Stick Student as a deceptively simple visual tool that helps students visualize applications of discipline-specific writing, suggesting the possibilities are as extensive as the Mobius Strip’s twists.\"}]","Deceptively Simple: Writing's Answer to the Mobius Strip - read online free | PDF",1792087149,55]