The second item on my list concerns the visibility of investigations into the complex research, thinking, planning, and writing involved in multimodal compositions. A CHAT-based perspective would require activities and writing assignments that ask course participants to both "see" and manipulate with skill the complex enactments and rhetorical trajectories of a particular text.

Item Two:
Course assignments for a CHAT-based first-year writing program must encompass complex compositional processes and must encourage both active manipulation of these processes and reflection about the effects of different compositional choices. These activities must be visible to both course participants and outside audiences.

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