Seeking Texts in All Available Forms: Invisible Writing and a New Reading Rhetoric of Sight and Soun...

<p>Basic writing students are faced with challenges as readers who must understand a variety of texts that fit into traditional notions of academic genres, but also negotiate selfsponsored, digital, and multimodal writing. Rather than focusing on specific acts or sequences for how to read, I argue for the metaphor of invisible writing as a new reading rhetoric to help student readers negotiate various types of texts and what makes those texts "invisible." Invisibility is discussed in connection to definitions of writing, value, and productive potential. Finally, the metaphor of invisible writing is considered in concert with ear training. This use of sight and sound to reframe the process of reading is meant to offer basic writing teachers approaches for the challenges of helping students understand multimodal and varied texts.</p>