While many instructors have begun to employ a combination of critical and creative thinking in
their teaching, there are many possibilities in the 21st century to expand both on the way students
interact with their writing processes and their writing tools. Computers can facilitate thinking and
composing processes, and the available multimodal forms of composition may help the way
students think, compose, and revise. By leveraging technology to combine critical and creative
thinking, instructors may integrate multimodal composition into their curriculum. In a
comparative study between a course design using alphabetic text-based materials and multimodal
materials, students' effectiveness at assimilating, considering, and relaying content and
developing writing processes were analyzed. Multimodal formats improved ideation and
communication in student writing.