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This case study explores the efficacy of online environments for the teaching and learning of multimodal literacies. In our research, we seek to explore student learning between two groups who had experienced similar first-year composition curricula, one online and one face-to-face (f2f). Through an assessment of a pilot online curriculum taught at the University of New Mexico, which we call eComp, we explore the affordances and constraints of online and f2f learning environments for the development of multimodal literacies in first-year composition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on the mutual adjustments to learning from and responding to transfer student writers in universities. Discussed are the first-year writing courses in universities which are founded on three assumptions such as the first-year composition (FYC) courses should be part of the students general education; FYC courses provide students with common learning experience to support their academic writings in other courses and FYC offers a foundation in building upper level-writing.