TY - BOOK AU - AU - Sealey-Morris, Gabriel. ED - ED - ED - Composition Studies.43(1):Spring 2015.pp. 31-50 ED - SN - 2 PY - 0000///46 CY - PB - KW - KW - 2 KW - 0 KW - 6 KW - 20 KW - Teaching;Comic KW - Writing.;Rhetoric KW - sears;sears0 N1 - ABSTRACT : While comics have received widespread acceptance as a literary genre, instructors and scholars in Rhetoric and Composition have been slower to adopt comics, largely because of a lingering difficulty understanding how the characteristics of the form relate to our work in the classroom. Using as guides the WPA Outcomes Statement for First-Year Writing, and the NCTE Position Statement on Multimodal Literacies, this essay seeks to establish the conditions necessary for a pedagogically sound, functional use of comics in composition instruction, not only in readings and textbooks but also in practice; 5 ER -