At the Computers and Writing 2011 Conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Gail E. Hawisher was celebrated for her many contributions to the field. At that conference, Hawisher gave a keynote address entitled "Our Work in the Profession: The Here and Now of the Future." This video publication includes contributions from scholars who wanted to share…

This webtext examines the ways that Jonathan Pearson, a recent graduate of The University of Missouri-Kansas City, revised one of his essays to turn it from a seminar paper into a published scholarly article. The project covers a time period from 2004 to 2010 and documents the article's most important streams of input. Those streams include the…

Documentary movie making is not academic writing. Nor is it traditional academic research. However, I have found it to be a remarkable vehicle for teaching both of these things...each semester I am amazed and humbled by the creativity and sincerity that my students bring to their work.

As a tool for publishing in time-compressed media environments, Prezi is nearly ideal. In this Inventio piece, I write about why Prezi works so well (for me), especially in the context of trying to talk about the DIY digital films I have produced. Key concepts that support my claim involve desire and movement (aural, imagistic, spatial).

"Given that my film is exploring a punk ethos that attends DIY filmmaking, I decided that the rough nature of the video created appropriate content... these are the sorts of details that reveal the complex, cinema verite nature of the DIY experience."

The narrator relates his life's downward spiral and miraculous rebound from severe foot problems using animated bullet points, images, charts, and graphs. "Custom Orthotics Changed My Life" is a work of presentation fiction, or slideshow fiction, in the form of a video with an original soundtrack. The music was composed by David Kettler, a…

In a remix of the infamous Hitler meme--taking a scene from the movie, "Downfall" (2005), and adding subtitles appropriate (in this case) for "Kairos" readers--theamishaugur makes a pointed, humorous (to some) commentary on the status of multimodal composition scholars in English departments during job market season.