at the end of the 20th Century. Writing classes were once defacto literature courses. That still exist if one accepts the idea that literature means more than just "literature," that the texts we need to study, grade, and teach extend beyond the pages of a book.
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Many think that multimodal teaching is a clever way to present ideas, which it is. But there's more to incorporating words and images into a writing space. It's an acknowledgement that the world we live in is changing faster and more drastically than could be anticipated
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"This ability to link technology use and practice to their own traditions helps the students claim a powerful rhetorical agency that is both critical and functional, allowing them to therefore become what [Carmen] Kynard calls 'Afrodigitized'" (13).
@nickxbush It is a bit of a tangent but felt it important to acknowledge the "messiness" of the multimodal transition process and how that has its own benefits.