Chapter 6: Saving, Sharing, Citing, and Publishing Multimodal Text

Citation: Pandey, Iswari. “Saving, Sharing, Citing, and Publishing Multimodal Texts.” Multimodal Composition: Resources for Teachers. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton, 2007. 65-77. Print.

Reading and Thinking 
Pandey explains the similarities and differences from saving, sharing, citing, and publishing words and mutltimodal compositions that incorporate sound and images. This meant for me, a practical guide for teachers that contains a lot of how-to information about formats of files, memory constraints, websites for reference, and assignment ideas. He argues that every teacher of multimodal composition should teach four topics under intellectual property: copyright law, fair use, public domain, and open-source/creative commons licensing. It is the ethical and legal responsibility of teachers and students to understand the ethical and legal constraints of citing and publishing multimodal compositions, and strict attention should be paid to teaching students how to properly prepare bibliographies of all the image, video, and sound materials they use in their compositions.  I was not aware of how important the copyright process is.  The essay drew me to research more information on the copyright laws and the people that learned the hard way from not following it.