The New Work of Composing

Undergraduate Research in Multimodal Composition

Acknowledgements & References

Acknowledgements

The Normal Group would like to thank the following people for making this project possible:

  • Andrew Chamberlain (a then-undergraduate student co-teaching the English 239 course with Dr. Ball), who was instrumental in planning and driving the other students to the 2008 Thomas R. Watson Conference
  • Debra Journet, who was open to the idea of undergraduates documenting the conference and provided in-kind registration fees for them
  • The Center for Teaching and Learning with Technology at Illinois State University, which provided $2,000 in funding through its Teaching Development Innovation Grant to pay for the students’ hotels and food as well as some digital recording equipment
  • The English Department at Illinois State University, which paid for transportation costs for the students
  • The Research and Sponsored Programs Office at Illinois State University, which began an Undergraduate Research Fellowship award in response to a lack of non-Honors undergraduate research opportunities on campus. One student from The Normal Group, Matthew Wendling, received a summer fellowship to revise several of the videos in this chapter. (Revision suggestions were based on student editorial feedback from a subsequent semester of the Multimodal Composition course).


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