From Screen to Text: Video Composing in the Writing Classroom

== Abstract ==
"From Screen to Text: Video Composing in the Writing Classroom" is a study conducted by Megan Adams of Bowling Green State University. Adams' goal in her study was to discover "what strategies might be employed to help our students develop a deeper and richer understanding of content as they begin constructing a more focused argument?" Her study focuses on high school students and observes the ways in which creating video allows students to gain a better understanding for the concepts that they study.
== Key Concepts ==
Adams' study highlights how multimodality, rhetoric, and a "retuned" pedagogy are all key aspects of using video as a form of writing. She explains each of these terms in relation to her study and provides multiple students' examples. The examples show how students were able to use video as a form of writing public service announcements. In her conclusion, Adams explains, "Overall, the integration of a multimodal composition into the writing process, specifically targeted at assisting students to find purpose and focus in the invention stages of the writing process, was successful." In addition, however, Adams discusses in her conclusion that there wasn't necessarily a change in students' success, but there was a change in the overall perception and understanding and enthusiasm of the writing process.
==== Examples: ====
Below is a link to a web page in which 2 examples of students' projects can be observed. One project uses writing through video to discuss cyber bullying, and the other discusses partial-birth abortion. Each are an example of how students used multimodalityy and visual rhetoric to create public service messages.
http://www2.bgsu.edu/departments/english/cconline/megadams/projects.html
Key Words:
Multimodality
Rhetoric
Pedagogy
==== Sources: ====
http://www2.bgsu.edu/departments/english/cconline/megadams/about.html
http://www2.bgsu.edu/departments/english/cconline/megadams/projects.html