Category Archives: Teaching

Using Multiform Grammar in Presentations

Posted on November 30, 2019 by

How do speakers who use both words and images employ MFG? And how can they do so intentionally and effectively? As you can see in the illustration below, the speaker refers to the image on the screen in three different … Continue reading →

Posted in Contemplations, Research, Teaching

Zooming in on Multiform References

Posted on October 31, 2019 by
Posted in Research, Teaching

Pulling and Pushing Forces in Multiform References

Posted on March 2, 2019 by

Explicit, implicit and indeterminate multiform references (MFRs) maintain pulling and pushing forces between their verbal and visual poles. These forces are the mechanisms that potentially move readers to shift their attention between words and images across a multiform argument (MFA) … Continue reading →

Posted in Contemplations, Dissertation, Teaching

Indeterminate Multiform References

Posted on January 28, 2019 by

Indeterminate multiform References (MFRs) begon with terms whose semantic relatedness with terms in the caption or the image is vague and challenging to classify; it is neither a clear semantic similarity, meronym-holonym or any other relatedness; however, indeterminate MFRs seem … Continue reading →

Posted in Dissertation, Teaching

Drawing Childhood Memories on Money as a Teaching Tool

Posted on February 18, 2018 by

The following article was published in Innovatus, York University’s monthly pedagogical newsletter, on January 19, 2018. It describes an art exercise I gave in my tutorials. In the last tutorial of the fall term, students in the History course Making Money drew … Continue reading →

Posted in My Art, Teaching