If students can incorporate multimedia into their work how can we assess this? What level of importance does technical competence and chosen medium take in assessing these student artefacts? If a three and a half minute video replaces a three-page essay how do we know that our students have understood the assignment? This presentation explores the issues arising from assessing new digital writing. Jill Abbott is Adjunct lecturer at CUNY. Dr Trikartikaningsih Byas is Associate Professor at Queensborough Community College, CUNY. Her research includes e-learning and reflective practice. She also teaches in the Graduate English programme of Hamka University in Jakarta, Indonesia.

######### David Hucklesby. Digital Adaptation and the book in a box.

This paper examines Marc Saporta's Composition No1. A novel published in 1962 as a box of loose papers to be read in a random order. By drawing contrasts between the print editions of this text and the interactive add developed for the Ipad it will demonstrate questions of media specificity, which arise out of the digitilisation process. This paper also examines other 'books in boxes' and expands on the difficulties of developing a hypothetical digitilisation. David Hucklesby is a PhD candidate based in the Centre for Textual Studies at De Montfort University. His research compares innovative works of print literature of the Twentieth and Twenty- first Centuries, and identifies the ways in which such works reflect and react to the technology of New Fiction'/'Writers Reading' other narrative media. Key areas of interest include the ' group of the late 1960s, considering authors such as B.S. Johnson, Ann Quin and Giles Gordon, and contemporary authors such as Mark Z. Danielewski, Jonathan Safran Foer and Steven Hall

######### Sarah Tremlett. Patterned Utterance. Voice as writing in Image.

The artist's video poem 'Patterned Utterance' will be examined as an example of a cross-coded artwork between voice, image, and material entity. Sarah Tremlett explores how her work uses vocal intervention and methods of monitoring or 'reading' matter. She has used subverted vocal vibrations given from a highly sensitive scanning probe. Sarah Tremlett is a PhD student at the Chelsea School of Art. She is currently organising 'Liberated Words' a poetry film festival in Bristol in October 2013

######### Bella Kerr and Tim Stokes. Re-Forming the Book

This paper examines how a passage from the novel The Professor's House by Willa Cather was digitally manipulated to create a short animated sequence. This idea of playing with the book form led to a new visual adaptation of the novel, one that deals with ideas of story, imagined story and the book itself. This paper examines the relationship between texts and space with reference to notions of post- modern appropriation. Bella Kerr and Tim Stokes are from the Metropolitan University in Swansea. Tricks of the Trade. Instructional moves to Help future Teachers Become Dr Melanie Hundley. Melanie Hundley. Digital Creatives. When asked to work in multi-modal digital environments future teachers often find that the expressive techniques they developed as print writers are not readily transferred to texts on screens. This paper presents a strategy to support future teachers to become digital composers and to challenge their