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    Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacies in Architecture Studio Classes

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    Genre
    Thesis/Dissertation
    Date
    2009
    Author
    Allan, Elizabeth G.
    Advisor
    Goldblatt, Eli
    Committee member
    Wells, Susan, 1947-
    Henry, Katherine, 1956-
    Yancey, Kathleen Blake, 1950-
    Department
    English
    Subject
    Language, Rhetoric and Composition
    Architecture
    Education, Higher
    Kairos
    Melete
    Metis
    Multimodal
    Pedagogy
    Studio
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    http://dx.doi.org/10.34944/dspace/649
    Abstract
    This qualitative ethnographic study investigates the multimodal literacy practices and rhetorical strategies of undergraduate architecture students and studio professors in the first-year, third-year, and fifth-year studio classes of a five-year B. Arch. program. As they assume the disciplinary identity of architects, students develop studio ethos, a network of discipline-specific practices and values shaped by studio culture. Data was gathered through field observations, interviews, collection of textual artifacts, and photographs documenting students' visual work and presentations. Using a constant comparative analysis approach, I identify similarities between the design studio pedagogy practiced by the studio professors in this study, sophistic rhetorical pedagogy, and the pedagogy of multiliteracies developed by the New London Group of multimodal literacy theorists. Analysis of the data reveals a shifting relationship between verbal and visual literacies across the arc of the program. First, verbal literacy practices scaffold the development of discipline-specific visual literacies as novice students produce, translate, and synthesize knowledge by working iteratively across multiple modes. Then, the visual displaces the verbal as students present design arguments to an architectural audience. At the same time, verbal peer critique and presentations to non-architects require an increased rhetorical awareness. Finally, the verbal and visual are realigned according to disciplinary values in the fifth-year students' formal design thesis papers and independent thesis projects. A rhetorical analysis of the architects' practices reveals a conceptual connection to three components of sophistic rhetorical pedagogy: melete, the belief in the transformative power of iterative practice through agonistic encounters; kairos, the sense of appropriate and timely response; and metis, a flexible, cunning intelligence. I theorize that the relationship between multimodal literacy and rhetoric hinges on the interplay of modal affordances(what a particular mode can and cannot convey) and the available means of persuasion(rhetorical exigencies determined by cultural values). I argue that understanding the academic multimodal and rhetorical practices of a visually-based discipline can enhance how new media texts are composed and deployed in composition and rhetoric and literacy studies.
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