Shyam Pandey

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Assistant Professor at Sam Houston State University

Activist groups, particularly PETA and Animal Justice, leverage multimodality in online advocacy to effectively communicate their organizational missions and updates across diverse communication platforms. This study uses a content analysis approach to examine the official websites of two prominent international animal rights organizations, PETA an...

This study explores technical and professional communication (TPC) students’ design of multimodal career portfolios, focusing on their strategies amid technological advancements and shifting workplace dynamics. The study analyzed 155 artifacts from 31 students, including resumes, video resumes, cover letters, LinkedIn profiles, and rhetorical and m...

bold xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">Introduction: This article provides a critical interface analysis of the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) website to reveal how systemic oppressions embedded in governmental websites create injustice among minoritized communities. Literatur...

This article analyzes the speeches of two U.S. politicians—President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden—to present how they make their arguments about climate change using various frames. While frames are rhetorical acts, they are also a form of persuasion. In particular, the author demonstrates how Trump foregrounded negative frames with fear-in...

Multimodal composition is becoming increasingly popular in university classrooms as faculty, students, and institutions come to recognize that old and new technologies have enabled, and even demanded, the use of more than one composing mode for communicating, solving problems, and keeping up with the latest discourse. Professionalizing Multimodal C...

Multilingual writers represent a wide and heterogenous population. By studying the writing practices of Nepali students, as a significant portion of US international student population, this article seeks to foreground the issue of perception as an important factor of multilingual student writing. This qualitative case study focuses on how any acqu...

Editorial: Introduction to the special issue on multimodal composition in multilingual contexts Despite having a short history, multimodal composition, has gained research and pedagogical momentum over the last 20 years. Since first introduced by the New London Group (1996), the notion of multimodality has subverted the traditional definition of

This paper presents a sociolinguistic profile of contemporary Nepal, with particular reference to the status and functions of English in Nepali society. Nepal has been said to belong to the Expanding Circle, as English has traditionally had no official status there, although the language has been playing significant economic, educational, and socia...

Reflection plays an important role in teachers’ professional development. In this paper, Dr. Henderson Lee and four of her former graduate TESOL advisees share their critical friendship, highlighting the connection between reflective language teaching and the development of L2 literacy teacher-scholars.

This book is a collection of plays that were performed at the English Access Microscholarship Program’s week-long English Immersion Leadership Camp -2014 in Dhulikhel, Nepal . The students, ages 13 to 16, wrote many scripts, practiced with close supervisions and guidance of their teachers and performed on the last day of the camp. These plays were...