Context is the world around the artifact

substance refers to the content and overall quality and significance of the ideas

Process management and technique refer to the skills, capacities, and processes involved in planning, creating, and circulating multimodal artifacts

Habits of mind are patterns of behavior or attitudes that reach beyond the artifact being created at the moment.

We conclude by reporting on how the process of linking the language of assessment with the language of text creation and interaction is a “game changer,” because instead of abstract outside standards shaping the value of a text, situated discussions of a work become the major determining factors when assessing that piece’s value.

richer, more situated approaches to assessing multimodal writing are being developed, particularly in post-secondary environments.

Digital writers can choose among a plethora of platforms, tools, communities, and forms to accomplish their purposes, with new options being created all the time. The growth and variety of options for digital and multimodal writing put a high premium on authors’ attention to situational elements. Yet situational elements are not easily accommodated in standardized assessment processes.