June 2025 Featured Member Spotlight

Brett Stamm, Assistant Professor of Elementary Education, University of Southern Mississippi

Journal Article: Investigating Method & Madness: The Composing Processes of 5th Grade Students .

 

From the article abstract "Daily writing practices occur in digital environments and are often multimodal. Studies have attempted to interpret composing processes in these environments through text-based lenses and findings have yet to explicitly or effectively define and illustrate the complexities. This case study explores processes and activities of 5th-grade students as they compose using digital tools, multimodal resources, and navigate the opportunities those tools and resources afford. Findings suggest 11 process activities; three unique to digital multimodal environments, and all having influences of the digital and multimodal environments in which composing takes place. Results 1) demonstrate the potential to develop a specific metalanguage for digital multimodal composing, 2) begin to inform a specific digital lens for interpreting composing in these 21st century environments and 3) help practitioners design instruction that best support student composers in classroom contexts."

To cite

Stamm, B. (2025). Investigating Method & Madness: The Composing Processes of 5th Grade Students . Computers and Composition. 76. DOI 10.1016/j.compcom.2025.102936

 

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