Blurb:

Coffin and Derewianka examine the shift from the more linear texturing of a traditional, late 20th century history textbook to the multimodal pastiche of contemporary textbooks. They probe the implications of this shift for the student reader in terms of creating a coherent reading of the text. They focus on issues such as the interpersonal and textual resources that the multimodal text draws on in achieving coherence (or not) and how these differ from those found in traditional linear texts.