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Digital essays pair traditional writing skills with multimedia-rich platforms that allow students to embed images, video, GIS maps, timelines, and other forms of content into their academic writing projects. In general, digital essays ask students to...

  • Explore how the digital realm offers new possibilities for scholars
  • Use multimedia to bolster or clarify an argument
  • Curate an essay so that text and other media complement one another

Recommended tools

  • 鈥擜tavist is a publishing platform that supports collaborative authoring and thesis-development and allows users to embed media and third-party applications
  • 鈥擶ordPress is a content management system that is frequently used as a blog or website platform


Teaching materials

  • by Kendall Gilman
  • A and modeling assignments by the University of William and Mary